Live Play Data

Knollspine Dragon

· Creature — Dragon · Shadowmoor (SHM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

42%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 60% (6 / 25 cast on T7)

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

268

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.

≥ +16.0pp

Players who cast this card win 61% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=31).

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 +36.3pp; 95% confidence interval +16.0pp to +56.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

4.2%

Library

18.3%

Battlefield

26.8%

Graveyard

14.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Knollspine Dragon

Creature — Dragon

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

7 / 5

Shadowmoor (SHM) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Prescott

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.