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Kros, Defense Contractor

· Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

211

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Kros, Defense Contractor

Legendary Creature — Cat Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shield counter on target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, tap that creature and goad it. It gains trample until your next turn. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

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New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Katerina Ladon

Final zone distribution

27 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ms. Bumbleflower 29 decks
2 Perrie, the Pulverizer 5 decks
3 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 2 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
5 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 1 decks
6 Karona, False God 1 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
8 Lagrella, the Magpie 1 decks
9 Progenitus 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

75 brought · 41 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=15) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=43).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.5pp to +38.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.