Live Play Data

Dragon Fodder

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

952

Decks Running

444

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=149

19%

13%

14%

11%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 26% (28 / 149 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

952 brought · 408 players

Brought to game

952

Ever drawn

195

Reached battlefield

149

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=128) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=640).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=35).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

221 instances

1.8%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

71.0%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 150 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 86 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 26 decks
4 Magnus the Red 15 decks
5 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 14 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 12 decks
7 The Great Goblin 12 decks
8 Purphoros, God of the Forge 7 decks
9 Baylen, the Haymaker 6 decks
10 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 6 decks

Card text

Dragon Fodder

Sorcery

Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.