Live Play Data

Frantic Search

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

13%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

8548

Decks Running

3733

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1806

12%

14%

15%

47%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 13% (210 / 1806 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

8558 brought · 2551 players

Brought to game

8558

Ever drawn

2469

Reached battlefield

1806

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=1651) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=4999).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=591).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +8.8pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2756 instances

3.9%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

64.9%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 231 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 167 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 143 decks
4 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 83 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 83 decks
6 Shiko and Narset, Unified 68 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 64 decks
8 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 56 decks
9 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 56 decks
10 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 56 decks

Card text

Frantic Search

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Common · Illustrated by Leonardo Santanna

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.