Live Play Data

Orcish Lumberjack

· Creature — Orc · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

352

Decks Running

159

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

21%

17%

11%

15%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 13

On curve 21% (11 / 53 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

352 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

352

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=43) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=16).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

2.4%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

40.5%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 35 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 31 decks
3 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 11 decks
4 Pako, Arcane Retriever 10 decks
5 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 5 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks
7 Lord Windgrace 4 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 3 decks
9 Maelstrom Wanderer 3 decks
10 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 3 decks

Card text

Orcish Lumberjack

Creature — Orc

, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R}

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Vintage Masters (VMA) · Common · Illustrated by Steve Prescott

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.