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Notion Thief

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

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Times Brought

305

Decks Running

159

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.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

1.0%

Library

26.0%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

13.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 36 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
4 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 6 decks
5 Queza, Augur of Agonies 6 decks
6 Sen Triplets 6 decks
7 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 5 decks
8 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 4 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
10 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

305 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

305

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=37) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=156).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=33) — 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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

11%

15%

17%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 30% (7 / 46 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

46 of 100 times cast 46%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.