Live Play Data

Kiora Bests the Sea God

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

308

Decks Running

136

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

57%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 46% (10 / 65 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

309 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

309

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=59) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=30).

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 +23.1pp; 95% confidence interval +10.2pp to +36.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

111 instances

2.7%

Library

30.6%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 63 decks
2 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 8 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 8 decks
4 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 8 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 6 decks
6 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 3 decks
7 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 3 decks
8 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 2 decks
9 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood 2 decks
10 Alora, Merry Thief 1 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.