Live Play Data

Hulking Raptor

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

673

Decks Running

299

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

10%

18%

11%

45%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 33% (22 / 121 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

673 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

673

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=112) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=439).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=30).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

175 instances

2.3%

Library

40.0%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 101 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 61 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 24 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 13 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 11 decks
6 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate 10 decks
7 Blue, Loyal Raptor 8 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 6 decks
9 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks
10 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 3 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.