Live Play Data

Otepec Huntmaster

· Creature — Human Shaman · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

633

Decks Running

292

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=133

18%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 26% (24 / 133 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

633 brought · 276 players

Brought to game

633

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

133

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=122) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=380).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23).

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 +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

179 instances

4.5%

Library

33.0%

Battlefield

42.5%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 171 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 68 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 10 decks
4 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 10 decks
5 Blue, Loyal Raptor 8 decks
6 Etali, Primal Storm 8 decks
7 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 7 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 6 decks
9 Zacama, Primal Calamity 4 decks
10 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 2 decks

Card text

Otepec Huntmaster

Creature — Human Shaman

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. {T}

: Target Dinosaur gains haste until end of turn.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daarken

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.