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Hulking Raptor

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

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Times Brought

507

Decks Running

224

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

116 instances

5.2%

Library

50.9%

Battlefield

19.0%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 71 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 41 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 19 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 12 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 9 decks
6 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 7 decks
7 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate 7 decks
8 Blue, Loyal Raptor 5 decks
9 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 4 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

507 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

507

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=79) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=303).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=18).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +8.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

13%

17%

16%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 37% (15 / 89 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.