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Icebreaker Kraken

· Snow Creature — Kraken · Kaldheim (KHM)

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Times Brought

126

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

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

Final zone distribution

36 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

19.4%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

41.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the Rimestaff 16 decks
2 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 7 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 6 decks
4 Narfi, Betrayer King 5 decks
5 Hylda of the Icy Crown 4 decks
6 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 4 decks
7 Flubs, the Fool 3 decks
8 Isu the Abominable 3 decks
9 Charix, the Raging Isle 2 decks
10 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

126 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

126

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=21) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=84).

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 -14.6pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

52%

T6-9

38%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 20

On curve 90% (1 / 21 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.