Live Play Data

Flickering Hound

· Creature — Dog · Reality Fracture (FRA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

934

Decks Running

396

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=214

21%

55%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 11% (19 / 214 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

935 brought · 339 players

Brought to game

935

Ever drawn

300

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

106

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=208) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=569).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=77).

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 +17.3pp; 95% confidence interval +10.0pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

316 instances

1.3%

Library

33.5%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Flickering Hound

Creature — Dog

Whenever you cast a creature spell, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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Reality Fracture (FRA) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.