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Notion Thief

{2} {U} {B} · Creature — Human Rogue · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
448
Decks Running
210
In Decks
1596
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Notion Thief card

Notion Thief

{2} {U} {B}
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.
3 / 1
Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Clint Cearley

Final zone distribution

126 instances
0.8%
Library
19.0%
Battlefield
42.1%
Graveyard
17.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

448 brought · 189 players
Brought to game
448
Ever drawn
101
Reached battlefield
63
Still on board at game end
24

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=56) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=275).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=36) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=63
0%
T1
2%
T2
8%
T3
10%
T4
17%
T5
44%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 25
On curve 19% (6 / 63 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%
63 of 100 times cast 63%

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.