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Loyal Warhound

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

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

125

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

3 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

41.8%

Battlefield

25.5%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

27.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 49 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 19 decks
3 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 6 decks
4 Sophia, Dogged Detective 4 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 3 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 3 decks
7 Amy Rose 2 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 2 decks
9 Lightning, Army of One 2 decks
10 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

265 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

265

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=34) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=178).

Observed gap -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -12.2pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

20%

18%

15%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 10% (3 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.