Live Play Data

King Darien XLVIII

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

182

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

18%

14%

21%

29%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 25% (5 / 28 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

182 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

182

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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=26) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=124).

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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +30.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Library

42.9%

Battlefield

23.8%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kudo, King Among Bears 23 decks
2 Baylen, the Haymaker 9 decks
3 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 7 decks
4 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 5 decks
5 Jetmir, Nexus of Revels 4 decks
6 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 3 decks
7 Jasmine Boreal of the Seven 3 decks
8 Cadira, Caller of the Small 2 decks
9 Ghalta and Mavren 2 decks
10 Infinite Guideline Station 2 decks

Card text

King Darien XLVIII

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +1/+1. {3}

: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

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Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.