Live Play Data

Hulking Raptor

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1570

Decks Running

694

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=307

13%

19%

11%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 36% (58 / 307 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1570 brought · 637 players

Brought to game

1570

Ever drawn

394

Reached battlefield

307

Still on board at game end

169

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=275) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=975).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=74).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

429 instances

1.9%

Library

39.4%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 233 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 152 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 90 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 26 decks
5 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate 17 decks
6 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 15 decks
7 Blue, Loyal Raptor 14 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 13 decks
9 Zacama, Primal Calamity 10 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 9 decks

Card text

Hulking Raptor

Creature — Dinosaur

Ward

At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}

5 / 3

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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.