Live Play Data

Draconic Lore

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

245

Decks Running

126

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

70%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 19% (2 / 27 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=25) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=25).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -15.4pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

6.9%

Library

50.0%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

36.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Draconic Lore

Instant

This spell costs {2}

less to cast if you control a Dragon. Draw three cards.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Tom Babbey

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.