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Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

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

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Times Brought

152

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

48 instances

4.2%

Library

45.8%

Battlefield

29.2%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sonic the Hedgehog 16 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 10 decks
3 Edward Kenway 6 decks
4 Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury 3 decks
5 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 3 decks
6 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 3 decks
7 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 3 decks
8 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 3 decks
9 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 2 decks
10 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

152 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

152

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=19) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=86).

Observed gap +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

39%

13%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 10

On curve 48% (9 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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.