Live Play Data

Golgari Thug

· Creature — Human Warrior · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

145

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

17%

19%

14%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 22% (6 / 36 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -19.3pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=28) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 57% (n=18).

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 -4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -19.3pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

3.8%

Library

17.5%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

17.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Golgari Thug

Creature — Human Warrior

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

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Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.