Live Play Data

Extract Brain

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

17%

58%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

136 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

136

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=20) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=74).

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 +16.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +36.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

4.9%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

58.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Extract Brain

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses X cards from their hand. Look at those cards. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by A. M. Sartor

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.