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Piper of the Swarm

· Creature — Human Warlock · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

131

In Decks

717

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Piper of the Swarm

Creature — Human Warlock

Rats you control have menace. {1}

: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. {2}

, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

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Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Rare · Illustrated by Irina Nordsol

Final zone distribution

53 instances

37.7%

Battlefield

37.7%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

18.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -14.8pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=30) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=130).

Observed gap -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.8pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

25%

31%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 25% (8 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.