Live Play Data

Fain, the Broker

· Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

438

Decks Running

198

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

19%

17%

31%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 27% (12 / 64 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

438 brought · 192 players

Brought to game

438

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=55) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=281).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=45).

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 -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

1.6%

Library

26.8%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Fain, the Broker

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}

, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}

, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}

: Untap Fain.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lius Lasahido

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.