Live Play Data

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

· Legendary Creature — Snake Wizard · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

470

Decks Running

218

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=110

14%

12%

49%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 33% (13 / 110 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

470 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

470

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=72) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=300).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=31).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +27.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

125 instances

3.2%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

22.4%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 97 decks
2 Doran, Besieged by Time 39 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 19 decks
4 Betor, Kin to All 14 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 13 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 13 decks
7 Doran, the Siege Tower 7 decks
8 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 4 decks
9 Felix Five-Boots 3 decks
10 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex 2 decks

Card text

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Legendary Creature — Snake Wizard

Menace Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Anastasia Ovchinnikova

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.