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Loyal Warhound

· Creature — Dog · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

268

Decks Running

136

In Decks

937

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

56 instances

1.8%

Library

32.1%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 26 decks
2 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 24 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 8 decks
4 Sophia, Dogged Detective 6 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks
6 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
7 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 3 decks
8 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 2 decks
9 Arthur, Marigold Knight 2 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

268

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=37) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=180).

Observed gap +14.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +30.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

33%

10%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 8% (2 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.