Live Play Data

Honest Rutstein

· Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

436

Decks Running

190

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

10%

24%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 13% (7 / 71 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

436 brought · 180 players

Brought to game

436

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=67) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=260).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=37).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

128 instances

2.3%

Library

24.2%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 19 decks
2 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 15 decks
3 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 11 decks
4 Yarok, the Desecrated 9 decks
5 Tom, Bert, and William 8 decks
6 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 6 decks
7 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride 6 decks
8 Ziatora, the Incinerator 6 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks
10 Yargle and Multani 5 decks

Card text

Honest Rutstein

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Javier Charro

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.