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Empty the Warrens

· Sorcery · The List (PLST)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

203

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

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

56.3%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 73 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 68 decks
3 Magnus the Red 9 decks
4 The Great Goblin 5 decks
5 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 3 decks
7 Purphoros, God of the Forge 3 decks
8 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 3 decks
9 Child of Alara 2 decks
10 Flubs, the Fool 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 189 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=31) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=206).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=20).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

20%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 25% (8 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.