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Live Play Data

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

{1} {U} · Legendary Creature — Siren Pirate · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
913
Decks Running
411
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
69%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=194
5%
T1
15%
T2
20%
T3
9%
T4
6%
T5
32%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 20% (29 / 194 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

913 brought · 381 players
Brought to game
913
Ever drawn
278
Reached battlefield
191
Still on board at game end
89

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=180) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=554).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=77).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

301 instances
1.7%
Library
29.6%
Battlefield
36.2%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel card

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

{1} {U}
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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.