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Honest Rutstein

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

240

Decks Running

105

In Decks

886

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

76 instances

1.3%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

1.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 11 decks
2 Yarok, the Desecrated 7 decks
3 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 6 decks
4 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 5 decks
5 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride 4 decks
6 Camellia, the Seedmiser 3 decks
7 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 3 decks
8 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 3 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 3 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=39) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=146).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.4pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

27%

41%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 7% (2 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.