Live Play Data

Dragonspeaker Shaman

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2468

Decks Running

992

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=412

26%

17%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 28% (107 / 412 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

2468 brought · 866 players

Brought to game

2468

Ever drawn

535

Reached battlefield

412

Still on board at game end

172

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=369) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1636).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=105).

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 -7.0pp to +2.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

589 instances

3.7%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

38.5%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 235 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 204 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 92 decks
4 Atarka, World Render 81 decks
5 Ureni of the Unwritten 70 decks
6 Tiamat 49 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 38 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 27 decks
9 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 26 decks
10 Ganax, Astral Hunter 21 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.