Live Play Data

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

272

Decks Running

116

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

10%

46%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 23% (4 / 39 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

272 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

272

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=34) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=172).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

97 instances

3.1%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

12.4%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.