Live Play Data

Persistent Marshstalker

· Creature — Rat Berserker · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

131

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=47

13%

15%

13%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 19% (6 / 47 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 122 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 28% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=42) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=164).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

18.1%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

22.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Persistent Marshstalker

Creature — Rat Berserker

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. Threshold — Whenever you attack with one or more Rats, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may pay {2}

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

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Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.