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Orb of Dragonkind

· Artifact · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

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.

Card text

Orb of Dragonkind

Artifact

: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons. {R}

, 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

Final zone distribution

35 instances

2.9%

Library

42.9%

Battlefield

25.7%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 27 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 16 decks
3 Rivaz of the Claw 10 decks
4 Tiamat 9 decks
5 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 5 decks
6 Ureni of the Unwritten 4 decks
7 Atarka, World Render 2 decks
8 Ganax, Astral Hunter 2 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 2 decks
10 Acolyte of Bahamut 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -21.7pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=18) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=117).

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 -11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -21.7pp to -0.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

24%

28%

12%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 4 · max 8

On curve 48% (6 / 25 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.