Live Play Data

Expel the Interlopers

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

142

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

64%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 16% (4 / 25 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=24) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=181).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=24).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -13.3pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

1.7%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

51.7%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 58 decks
2 Arcades, the Strategist 11 decks
3 Doran, Besieged by Time 7 decks
4 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks
5 Betor, Kin to All 6 decks
6 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor 4 decks
7 Doran, the Siege Tower 3 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
9 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
10 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 2 decks

Card text

Expel the Interlopers

Sorcery

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.