Live Play Data

Loyal Warhound

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1165

Decks Running

558

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=202

24%

12%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 11% (15 / 202 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1165 brought · 496 players

Brought to game

1165

Ever drawn

264

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=187) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=744).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=54).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

294 instances

2.4%

Library

24.1%

Battlefield

46.9%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 139 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 74 decks
3 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 34 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 26 decks
5 Sophia, Dogged Detective 16 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 13 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 11 decks
8 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 9 decks
9 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 9 decks
10 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 7 decks

Card text

Loyal Warhound

Creature — Dog

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) · Rare · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.