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Etali, Primal Storm

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

1486

Decks Running

712

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

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

Final zone distribution

345 instances

4.3%

Library

38.3%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1494 brought · 608 players

Brought to game

1494

Ever drawn

319

Reached battlefield

210

Still on board at game end

132

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=176) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=880).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=79).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=215

12%

22%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 61% (49 / 215 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.