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Great Train Heist

· Instant · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

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Times Brought

1028

Decks Running

504

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Great Train Heist

Instant

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2}

— 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

Final zone distribution

201 instances

2.0%

Library

15.4%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1028 brought · 450 players

Brought to game

1028

Ever drawn

185

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=67) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=582).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=76).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

12%

62%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 89 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.