Live Play Data

Dream-Thief's Bandana

· Artifact — Equipment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

105

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

18%

15%

38%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 21% (6 / 34 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

186

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=31) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=125).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

53.2%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 49 decks
2 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist 6 decks
3 Laughing Jasper Flint 5 decks
4 Gonti, Night Minister 4 decks
5 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 3 decks
6 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 2 decks
7 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks
8 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
9 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 2 decks
10 Vaan, Street Thief 2 decks

Card text

Dream-Thief's Bandana

Artifact — Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of their library, then exile it face down. For as long as it remains exiled, you may play it, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. Equip {1}

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Danny Schwartz

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.