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Honest Rutstein

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

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Times Brought

150

Decks Running

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

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.

3 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

43 instances

2.3%

Library

34.9%

Battlefield

18.6%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 8 decks
2 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 6 decks
3 Yarok, the Desecrated 5 decks
4 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 4 decks
5 Ygra, Eater of All 4 decks
6 Camellia, the Seedmiser 3 decks
7 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 3 decks
8 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride 3 decks
9 Tom, Bert, and William 3 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

150 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

150

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -16.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=17) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=90).

Observed gap -3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -16.0pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 17% (2 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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.