Live Play Data

Glint-Horn Buccaneer

· Creature — Minotaur Pirate · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

579

Decks Running

246

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=119

13%

11%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 18% (16 / 119 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

582 brought · 235 players

Brought to game

582

Ever drawn

190

Reached battlefield

119

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=109) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=318).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=65).

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 +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval +8.2pp to +27.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

202 instances

5.0%

Library

39.6%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 32 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 31 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 17 decks
4 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 15 decks
5 Edward Kenway 15 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
7 Flubs, the Fool 12 decks
8 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 11 decks
9 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 11 decks
10 Anje Falkenrath 6 decks

Card text

Glint-Horn Buccaneer

Creature — Minotaur Pirate

Haste Whenever you discard a card, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}

, Discard a card: Draw a card. Activate only if this creature is attacking.

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Core Set 2020 (M20) · Rare · Illustrated by Zack Stella

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.