Live Play Data

Ocelot Pride

· Creature — Cat · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

460

Decks Running

225

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

36% of games where Ocelot Pride resolved ended in a win for its controller, a +12.9 percentage-point lift over the 24% baseline when the card never left the library.

Ocelot Pride sits in 225 of 8036 tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, an 3% inclusion rate that reflects its niche role in life-gain and token strategies rather than universal adoption. When it does reach the battlefield, the win-rate signal is the strongest directional indicator we see across the dataset.

The draw-to-play rate of 80% tells a clear story: players who draw this 1-mana cat cast it. Median first-cast turn is 5, but the distribution is wide, with a spike at turn 1 from opening-hand keeps and a long tail out past turn 9. The 0-mana delay (median turns held before casting) suggests it goes down the moment players have a free mana open.

The cast-vs-library win-rate delta of +12.9 percentage points is among the larger gaps we track, and with 102 cast observations and 261 library observations it clears our threshold for a meaningful early signal, though the dataset is still growing. Ocelot Pride fits cleanest into white token-doubling and life-gain loops, showing up most often under Cat tribal and go-wide commanders.

At a glance

3% of tracked Commander decks include Ocelot Pride
80% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
T5 median first-cast turn across 445 tracked games
36% win rate in participations where Ocelot Pride resolved
+12.9pp win-rate lift when cast versus when it stays in the library
54% battlefield stickiness once cast

First-cast turn

n=115

25%

12%

18%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 25% (29 / 115 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 72%

The "good card" funnel

461 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

461

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

115

Still on board at game end

80%

Of 461 Ocelot Prides brought to games, 143 were drawn, 115 of those were cast, and roughly half of cast copies remained on the battlefield at game's end.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=102) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=27) — 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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

152 instances

2.6%

Library

40.8%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Most tracked copies of Ocelot Pride end games on the battlefield or in the graveyard after combat, with very few finishing in the library. That pattern is atypical for a singleton and reflects how often players draw and deploy this 1-mana threat.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander list spreads across Cat tribal, life-gain, and go-wide token archetypes, with Rin and Seri, Inseparable leading by deck count. No single commander dominates, a sign of how broadly Ocelot Pride slots into white strategies.

Card text

Ocelot Pride

Creature — Cat

First strike, lifelink Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Seaman

Frequently Asked

How often is Ocelot Pride drawn in a Commander game?

Across 445 tracked multiplayer Commander games where Ocelot Pride was in the deck, it was drawn 31% of the time. That is consistent with what you'd expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of those 143 drawn copies, 80% were cast before the game concluded.

What turn does Ocelot Pride usually get cast?

Median first-cast turn is 5. The distribution has a clear opening-hand cluster, with a meaningful share of casts on turn 1, and then a spread across turns 5 through 9. As a 1-mana card, most late casts reflect draws after the early turns rather than a deliberate hold. The same-turn cast rate of 72% confirms players cast it quickly once it enters hand.

Does casting Ocelot Pride actually improve your chances of winning?

Directionally, yes. In 102 participations where Ocelot Pride reached the battlefield, the normalized win rate was 36%. In 261 participations where it never left the library, win rate was 24%. That is a +12.9 percentage-point gap. Both sample sizes clear 15 observations, making this a meaningful early signal, though Playgroup Live's dataset is still small relative to the full format population.

Is Ocelot Pride legal in Commander?

Yes. Ocelot Pride from Modern Horizons 3 is legal in Commander with no restrictions. It is also legal in Legacy, Vintage, Timeless, and Gladiator. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Brawl.

Which commanders most often run Ocelot Pride?

Rin and Seri, Inseparable leads the tracked dataset, followed by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Marneus Calgar. The spread across life-gain, token, and Cat tribal commanders reflects how broadly the card's three abilities, first strike, lifelink, and end-step token generation, plug into different white strategies.

How concentrated is this data among specific players?

The data is well-distributed. 206 distinct players have brought Ocelot Pride to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 4% of all instances. That spread is a genuine strength of the dataset and reduces the risk that one player's results are skewing the aggregate numbers.