Live Play Data

Pirate's Pillage

· Sorcery · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

776

Decks Running

374

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=114

11%

21%

15%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 35% (24 / 114 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

776 brought · 336 players

Brought to game

776

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

114

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=105) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=525).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=52).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

192 instances

2.1%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Magnificent 28 decks
2 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 18 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 14 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 11 decks
5 Magar of the Magic Strings 11 decks
6 Smaug, Wicked Worm 9 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 8 decks
9 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 7 decks
10 Knuckles the Echidna 7 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 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.