Live Play Data
Kalain, Reclusive Painter
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Legendary Creature — Human Elf Bard
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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
143
Decks Running
72
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
85%
Format
First-cast turn
n=37
5%
T1
16%
T2
8%
T3
16%
T4
14%
T5
35%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
5
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
10
On curve
22%
(6 / 37 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
28%
The "good card" funnel
143 brought · 69 playersBrought to game
143
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
34
Still on board at game end
14
Once cast, 41% 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.
≥ -19.2pp
Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=31) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=86).
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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -19.2pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
42 instances33.3%
Battlefield
38.1%
Graveyard
14.3%
Exile
14.3%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Smaug the Impenetrable
10 decks
-
2
Prosper, Tome-Bound
9 decks
-
3
Shadow the Hedgehog
6 decks
-
4
Vazi, Keen Negotiator
6 decks
-
5
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
5 decks
-
6
Marchesa, the Black Rose
5 decks
-
7
Dihada, Binder of Wills
4 decks
-
8
Locke, Treasure Hunter
3 decks
-
9
Smaug, Wicked Worm
3 decks
-
10
Mr. House, President and CEO
2 decks
Card text
Kalain, Reclusive Painter
Legendary Creature — Human Elf Bard
When Kalain enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each mana from a Treasure spent to cast them.
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each mana from a Treasure spent to cast them.1 / 2
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Justine Cruz
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.