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Knuckles the Echidna

· Legendary Creature — Echidna Warrior · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)

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Times Brought

322

Decks Running

176

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Knuckles the Echidna

Legendary Creature — Echidna Warrior

Double strike, trample, haste Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Treasure Hunter — At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control thirty or more artifacts, you win the game.

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Secret Lair Drop (SLD) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole

Final zone distribution

81 instances

2.5%

Library

55.6%

Battlefield

13.6%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

322 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

322

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=34) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=20).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

15%

17%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 39% (7 / 41 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.