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Piper of the Swarm

{1} {B} · Creature — Human Warlock · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
135
Decks Running
90
In Decks
605
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

37 instances
40.5%
Battlefield
32.4%
Graveyard
8.1%
Exile
18.9%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

135 brought · 81 players
Brought to game
135
Ever drawn
34
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
15

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -13.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=20) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=87).

Observed gap +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -13.9pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
26%
T2
9%
T3
26%
T4
4%
T5
26%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 26% (6 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%
23 of 100 times cast 23%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.