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Live Play Data

Forerunner of the Empire

{3} {R} · Creature — Human Soldier · Rivals of Ixalan (RIX)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
264
Decks Running
116
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50
0%
T1
6%
T2
6%
T3
10%
T4
20%
T5
48%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 22% (5 / 50 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 107 players
Brought to game
264
Ever drawn
75
Reached battlefield
50
Still on board at game end
17

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=46) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=155).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=20).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances
4.8%
Library
20.2%
Battlefield
41.7%
Graveyard
14.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Forerunner of the Empire card

Forerunner of the Empire

{3} {R}
Creature — Human Soldier
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Dinosaur card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. Whenever a Dinosaur you control enters, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to each creature.
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Rivals of Ixalan (RIX) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.