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Great Train Heist card art
Live Play Data

Great Train Heist

{R} · Instant · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1078
Decks Running
507
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
45%
Format

First-cast turn

n=99
1%
T1
1%
T2
0%
T3
7%
T4
18%
T5
61%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 1% (1 / 99 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1078 brought · 449 players
Brought to game
1078
Ever drawn
221
Reached battlefield
99
Still on board at game end
15
≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=88) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=723).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=112).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

244 instances
5.3%
Library
6.1%
Battlefield
43.0%
Graveyard
6.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Great Train Heist card

Great Train Heist

{R}
Instant
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2}{R} — Untap all creatures you control. If it's your combat phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase. + {2} — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. + {R} — Choose target opponent. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to that player this turn, create a tapped Treasure token.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.