Live Play Data

Ghostly Pilferer

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

950

Decks Running

410

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=163

21%

12%

11%

10%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 18

On curve 31% (35 / 163 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

953 brought · 401 players

Brought to game

953

Ever drawn

280

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=154) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=569).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=108).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

303 instances

4.3%

Library

24.4%

Battlefield

41.6%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 54 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 45 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 34 decks
4 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 26 decks
5 Millicent, Restless Revenant 23 decks
6 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 13 decks
7 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus 12 decks
8 The Destined Warrior 11 decks
9 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 10 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 9 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 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.