Live Play Data

Kiora Bests the Sea God

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

154

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

61%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 44% (6 / 36 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

155 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

155

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=34) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=87).

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 +25.3pp; 95% confidence interval +8.4pp to +42.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

37.5%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 35 decks
2 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 5 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 5 decks
4 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 5 decks
5 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 3 decks
6 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 3 decks
7 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood 2 decks
8 Alora, Merry Thief 1 decks
9 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 1 decks
10 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 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

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.