Live Play Data

Empty the Warrens

· Sorcery · The List (PLST)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

364

Decks Running

203

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

22%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 17% (5 / 41 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

364 brought · 195 players

Brought to game

364

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=37) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=37).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

1.1%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

60.0%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 61 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 60 decks
3 Magnus the Red 13 decks
4 Flubs, the Fool 7 decks
5 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 6 decks
6 Codie, Vociferous Codex 4 decks
7 Purphoros, God of the Forge 4 decks
8 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks
9 The Great Goblin 3 decks
10 Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician 2 decks

Card text

Empty the Warrens

Sorcery

Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

The List (PLST) · Common · Illustrated by Johan Grenier

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 subset of that corpus.