Live Play Data

Dragon Sniper

· Creature — Human Archer · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

298

Decks Running

148

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

16%

12%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 16% (8 / 51 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 64%

The "good card" funnel

298 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

298

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=49) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=205).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=15).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

27.0%

Battlefield

51.4%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Serpent Society 31 decks
2 Fynn, the Fangbearer 22 decks
3 Indominus Rex, Alpha 13 decks
4 Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant 10 decks
5 Aveline de Grandpré 7 decks
6 Ohabi Caleria 4 decks
7 Sauron, Dino Devotee 4 decks
8 Teval, the Balanced Scale 4 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 3 decks
10 Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter 3 decks

Card text

Dragon Sniper

Creature — Human Archer

Reach, vigilance, deathtouch

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Auden Nash

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.