Live Play Data

Etali, Primal Storm

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3602

Decks Running

1555

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=604

10%

15%

58%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 49% (116 / 604 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

3610 brought · 1269 players

Brought to game

3610

Ever drawn

906

Reached battlefield

585

Still on board at game end

305

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=525) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2258).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=276).

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 +15.9pp; 95% confidence interval +11.8pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1001 instances

4.2%

Library

30.5%

Battlefield

28.2%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Etali, Primal Storm

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.