Live Play Data

Lurking Predators

· Enchantment · Jumpstart (JMP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

564

Decks Running

257

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

18%

13%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 59% (15 / 71 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

564 brought · 236 players

Brought to game

564

Ever drawn

120

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=63) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=373).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=41).

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 +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +23.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

4.3%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

21.6%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 35 decks
2 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 28 decks
3 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 15 decks
4 Kona, Rescue Beastie 13 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 10 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 10 decks
7 Maular, the Next Evolution 5 decks
8 Mayael the Anima 4 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of Creation 4 decks
10 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 4 decks

Card text

Lurking Predators

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Jumpstart (JMP) · Rare · Illustrated by Mike Bierek

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.