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Dragonlord Atarka

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

390

Decks Running

148

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Dragonlord Atarka

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, trample When Dragonlord Atarka enters, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Karl Kopinski

Final zone distribution

91 instances

5.5%

Library

52.7%

Battlefield

9.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 70 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 22 decks
3 Eshki, Temur's Roar 15 decks
4 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 14 decks
5 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood 7 decks
6 Atarka, World Render 5 decks
7 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 3 decks
8 Tiamat 3 decks
9 Eshki Dragonclaw 2 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

390 brought · 146 players

Brought to game

390

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=47) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=22).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.5pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

65%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 63% (16 / 60 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.