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Loyal Warhound

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

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Times Brought

741

Decks Running

351

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

144 instances

43.1%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

20.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 128 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 59 decks
3 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 11 decks
4 Sophia, Dogged Detective 10 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 9 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 9 decks
7 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 6 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
9 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 5 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

741 brought · 329 players

Brought to game

741

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

109

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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=88) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=442).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=18).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=109

18%

17%

12%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 11% (7 / 109 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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.