Live Play Data

Dragonlord's Servant

· Creature — Goblin Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1028

Decks Running

491

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=167

18%

17%

16%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 24% (30 / 167 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

1028 brought · 453 players

Brought to game

1028

Ever drawn

212

Reached battlefield

167

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=150) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=689).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=40).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

230 instances

7.8%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 116 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 70 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 46 decks
4 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 45 decks
5 Atarka, World Render 40 decks
6 Tiamat 28 decks
7 Smaug the Magnificent 16 decks
8 Rivaz of the Claw 15 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 15 decks
10 Eshki, Temur's Roar 12 decks

Card text

Dragonlord's Servant

Creature — Goblin Shaman

Dragon spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Steve Prescott

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.