Live Play Data

Old Thrush

· Creature — Bird · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

203

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

35%

11%

24%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 35% (13 / 37 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

203

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=35) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=130).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

9.1%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 5 decks
2 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 4 decks
3 Kastral, the Windcrested 4 decks
4 Gandalf, Party Guest 3 decks
5 The Great Goblin 3 decks
6 Thranduil, the Elvenking 3 decks
7 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza 2 decks
8 Beorn the Fierce 2 decks
9 Bifur, Melodic Rider 2 decks
10 Hope Estheim 2 decks

Card text

Old Thrush

Creature — Bird

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. You may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

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The Hobbit (HOB) · Common · Illustrated by Francisco Miyara

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.