Live Play Data

Icebreaker Kraken

· Snow Creature — Kraken · Kaldheim (KHM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

176

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

58%

T6-9

33%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 88% (0 / 24 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 87 players

Brought to game

179

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=23) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=121).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=15).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

8.7%

Library

23.9%

Battlefield

28.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the Rimestaff 20 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 11 decks
3 Isu the Abominable 10 decks
4 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 10 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 9 decks
6 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 5 decks
7 Narfi, Betrayer King 4 decks
8 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice 3 decks
9 The Watcher in the Water 2 decks
10 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 1 decks

Card text

Icebreaker Kraken

Snow Creature — Kraken

Affinity for snow lands (This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each snow land you control.) When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step. Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

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Kaldheim (KHM) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Cold

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.