Live Play Data

Dragonspeaker Shaman

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1231

Decks Running

500

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=216

26%

15%

17%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (56 / 216 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1231 brought · 451 players

Brought to game

1231

Ever drawn

277

Reached battlefield

216

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.

≥ -9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=197) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=811).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=53).

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 -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.6pp to +2.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

299 instances

4.3%

Library

29.8%

Battlefield

38.1%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 136 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 52 decks
3 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 50 decks
4 Atarka, World Render 46 decks
5 Ureni of the Unwritten 33 decks
6 Tiamat 32 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 25 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 14 decks
9 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 14 decks
10 Ganax, Astral Hunter 13 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 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.