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Live Play Data

Orb of Dragonkind

{1} {R} · Artifact · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
849
Decks Running
389
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
80%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=136
1%
T1
29%
T2
12%
T3
15%
T4
10%
T5
28%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 24
On curve 29% (39 / 136 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

849 brought · 367 players
Brought to game
849
Ever drawn
170
Reached battlefield
136
Still on board at game end
74

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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=128) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=583).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=32).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

190 instances
2.1%
Library
38.9%
Battlefield
38.9%
Graveyard
6.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Orb of Dragonkind card

Orb of Dragonkind

{1} {R}
Artifact
{1}, {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons. {R}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a Dragon card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

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.