Live Play Data

Ghostly Pilferer

· Creature — Spirit Rogue · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

513

Decks Running

247

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=95

20%

12%

14%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 23% (19 / 95 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

516 brought · 245 players

Brought to game

516

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=89) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=312).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=53).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances

4.4%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 33 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 31 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 19 decks
4 Millicent, Restless Revenant 16 decks
5 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 14 decks
6 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 8 decks
7 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus 7 decks
8 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 7 decks
9 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 6 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 6 decks

Card text

Ghostly Pilferer

Creature — Spirit Rogue

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}

. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.