Live Play Data

Kellan, the Kid

· Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Rogue · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

172

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=67

12%

15%

16%

13%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 28% (10 / 67 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

172

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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 38% of the time (n=36) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=114).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +27.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

63.8%

Battlefield

23.4%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

10.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 32 decks
2 Codie, Ravenous Codex 19 decks
3 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 5 decks
4 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 3 decks
5 Karolina Dean, Runaway 2 decks
6 The Wandering Minstrel 2 decks
7 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 1 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 1 decks
9 Galea, Kindler of Hope 1 decks
10 Gorion, Wise Mentor 1 decks

Card text

Kellan, the Kid

Legendary Creature — Human Faerie Rogue

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.