Live Play Data

Notion Thief

· Creature — Human Rogue · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1457

Decks Running

644

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=214

13%

14%

50%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 25

On curve 22% (27 / 214 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1457 brought · 580 players

Brought to game

1457

Ever drawn

352

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=194) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=869).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=127).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

409 instances

3.2%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

38.6%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 96 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 72 decks
3 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 24 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 17 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 17 decks
6 Queza, Augur of Agonies 17 decks
7 Saruman, the White Hand 17 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 17 decks
9 Sen Triplets 16 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 13 decks

Card text

Notion Thief

Creature — Human Rogue

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

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Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Clint Cearley

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.