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Highway Robbery card art
Live Play Data

Highway Robbery

{1} {R} · Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
164
Decks Running
88
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
70%
Format

First-cast turn

n=23
9%
T1
4%
T2
9%
T3
13%
T4
13%
T5
39%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 13% (1 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 62%

The "good card" funnel

164 brought · 83 players
Brought to game
164
Ever drawn
33
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -23.9pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=20) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=110).

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 -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -23.9pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

37 instances
13.5%
Library
2.7%
Battlefield
56.8%
Graveyard
8.1%
Exile
Card text
Highway Robbery card

Highway Robbery

{1} {R}
Sorcery
You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards. Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Common · Illustrated by Scott Murphy

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.