Live Play Data

Kellan Joins Up

· Legendary Enchantment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

124

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

54%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 17% (2 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

124 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

124

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=22) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=77).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +31.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

5.9%

Library

52.9%

Battlefield

23.5%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 16 decks
2 Kellan, the Kid 14 decks
3 Aragorn, the Uniter 8 decks
4 Human Torch 3 decks
5 Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary 3 decks
6 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 3 decks
7 Alistair, the Brigadier 2 decks
8 Infinite Guideline Station 2 decks
9 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 2 decks
10 Yuna, Grand Summoner 2 decks

Card text

Kellan Joins Up

Legendary Enchantment

When Kellan Joins Up enters, you may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted. (You may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.) Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Rare · Illustrated by Wylie Beckert

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.