Live Play Data

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

· Legendary Creature — Siren Pirate · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

686

Decks Running

333

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=146

16%

18%

10%

32%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 22% (23 / 146 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

686 brought · 310 players

Brought to game

686

Ever drawn

214

Reached battlefield

144

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=138) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=408).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=61).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

233 instances

2.1%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sonic the Hedgehog 50 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 40 decks
3 Edward Kenway 23 decks
4 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 16 decks
5 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 14 decks
6 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 14 decks
7 Admiral Beckett Brass 9 decks
8 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 8 decks
9 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus 7 decks
10 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 7 decks

Card text

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

Legendary Creature — Siren Pirate

Flash Flying Whenever Malcolm deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Fesbra

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.