Live Play Data

Iridescent Hornbeetle

· Creature — Insect · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

512

Decks Running

213

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

22%

48%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 27% (13 / 60 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

512 brought · 201 players

Brought to game

512

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=60) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=365).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=52).

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 -6.2pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

126 instances

4.8%

Library

32.5%

Battlefield

18.3%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Iridescent Hornbeetle

Creature — Insect

At the beginning of your end step, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each +1/+1 counter you've put on creatures under your control this turn.

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.