Live Play Data

Mari, the Killing Quill

· Legendary Creature — Vampire Assassin · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

231

Decks Running

130

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

17%

23%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 17% (5 / 30 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 7%

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

231

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=26) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=159).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

39.2%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

21.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mari, the Killing Quill

Legendary Creature — Vampire Assassin

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Rob Rey

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.