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Dragonspeaker Shaman

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

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Times Brought

843

Decks Running

422

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

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

Final zone distribution

163 instances

3.7%

Library

43.6%

Battlefield

25.2%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 121 decks
2 Atarka, World Render 55 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 42 decks
4 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 39 decks
5 Tiamat 25 decks
6 Ureni of the Unwritten 24 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 15 decks
8 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 15 decks
9 Rivaz of the Claw 14 decks
10 Ganax, Astral Hunter 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

843 brought · 379 players

Brought to game

843

Ever drawn

154

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=89) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=499).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=31).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=117

11%

23%

17%

14%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 38% (27 / 117 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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.