Live Play Data

Forerunner of the Empire

· Creature — Human Soldier · Rivals of Ixalan (RIX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

160

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

17%

27%

37%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 27% (5 / 30 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

160

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=30) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=100).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +25.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

23.5%

Battlefield

39.2%

Graveyard

15.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 18 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 12 decks
3 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 11 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 10 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 8 decks
6 Zacama, Primal Calamity 3 decks
7 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 2 decks
8 Blue, Loyal Raptor 1 decks
9 Halana, Kessig Ranger 1 decks
10 Hansk, Slayer Zealot 1 decks

Card text

Forerunner of the Empire

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.