Live Play Data

Lightning Runner

· Creature — Human Warrior · Aether Revolt (AER)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

142

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

13%

10%

56%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 23% (4 / 39 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

290 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

290

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=36) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=186).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=29).

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 +20.5pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +35.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

2.7%

Library

32.0%

Battlefield

25.3%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 62 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 47 decks
3 Liberty Prime, Recharged 9 decks
4 Dr. Madison Li 8 decks
5 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 4 decks
6 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 2 decks
7 Commander Liara Portyr 1 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
9 Grusilda, Monster Masher 1 decks
10 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 1 decks

Card text

Lightning Runner

Creature — Human Warrior

Double strike, haste Whenever this creature attacks, you get {E}

(two energy counters), then you may pay eight {E}

. If you pay, untap all creatures you control, and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

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Aether Revolt (AER) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.