Live Play Data

Dragonspeaker Shaman

· Creature — Human Barbarian Shaman · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1910

Decks Running

797

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=320

26%

16%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 34% (82 / 320 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1910 brought · 709 players

Brought to game

1910

Ever drawn

415

Reached battlefield

320

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=292) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1259).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=82).

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 -2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +2.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

455 instances

3.3%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 173 decks
2 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 168 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 71 decks
4 Atarka, World Render 70 decks
5 Ureni of the Unwritten 57 decks
6 Tiamat 40 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 33 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 24 decks
9 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 21 decks
10 Ganax, Astral Hunter 18 decks

Card text

Dragonspeaker Shaman

Creature — Human Barbarian Shaman

Dragon spells you cast cost {2}

less to cast.

2 / 2

Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.