Live Play Data

Knollspine Dragon

· Creature — Dragon · Shadowmoor (SHM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

669

Decks Running

251

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

11%

15%

56%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 65% (14 / 71 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

673 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

673

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=61) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=422).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=71).

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 +17.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +30.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

173 instances

5.8%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

29.5%

Graveyard

11.0%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.