Live Play Data

Pirate's Pillage

· Sorcery · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

548

Decks Running

276

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=89

21%

17%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 33% (19 / 89 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

548 brought · 249 players

Brought to game

548

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=84) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=360).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=40).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances

2.7%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

64.9%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Magnificent 21 decks
2 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 14 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 10 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks
5 Smaug, Wicked Worm 8 decks
6 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 7 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
8 The Scarlet Witch 7 decks
9 Magar of the Magic Strings 6 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks

Card text

Pirate's Pillage

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Common · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.