Live Play Data

Kiora Bests the Sea God

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

424

Decks Running

179

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

57%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 46% (12 / 81 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

425 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

425

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=74) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=45).

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 +21.3pp; 95% confidence interval +10.0pp to +32.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

150 instances

2.0%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 79 decks
2 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 12 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 12 decks
4 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 10 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 6 decks
6 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 5 decks
7 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 3 decks
8 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 2 decks
9 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice 2 decks
10 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.