Live Play Data

Kiora Bests the Sea God

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

542

Decks Running

222

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

60%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 38% (13 / 104 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

543 brought · 210 players

Brought to game

543

Ever drawn

159

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=94) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=299).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=53).

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 +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

186 instances

2.2%

Library

31.7%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 106 decks
2 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 14 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 13 decks
4 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 12 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 7 decks
6 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 5 decks
7 The Watcher in the Water 4 decks
8 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 3 decks
9 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 3 decks
10 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 2 decks

Card text

Kiora Bests the Sea God

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof. II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step. III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

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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.