Live Play Data

Monster Manual // Zoological Study

· Artifact — Book // Sorcery — Adventure · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

879

Decks Running

342

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=134

15%

21%

13%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 42% (28 / 134 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

883 brought · 308 players

Brought to game

883

Ever drawn

194

Reached battlefield

134

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=116) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=589).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=50).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

215 instances

0.9%

Library

44.7%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 74 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 19 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 18 decks
4 Maular, the Next Evolution 18 decks
5 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 18 decks
6 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 14 decks
7 Tiamat 10 decks
8 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 8 decks
9 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 6 decks
10 Kona, Rescue Beastie 6 decks

Card text

Monster Manual

Artifact — Book

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Zoological Study

Sorcery — Adventure

Mill five cards, then return a creature card milled this way to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by David Gaillet

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.