Live Play Data

Lightning Runner

· Creature — Human Warrior · Aether Revolt (AER)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

219

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

56%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 12

On curve 19% (2 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

220 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

220

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=25) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=147).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 4% (n=17).

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 +20.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +37.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

2.0%

Library

31.4%

Battlefield

27.5%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 43 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 37 decks
3 Dr. Madison Li 8 decks
4 Liberty Prime, Recharged 8 decks
5 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 3 decks
6 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 1 decks
7 Commander Liara Portyr 1 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
9 Maximus, Knight Apparent 1 decks
10 Ognis, the Dragon's Lash 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 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.