Live Play Data

Pitiless Plunderer

· Creature — Human Pirate · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5236

Decks Running

2260

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=690

14%

17%

46%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 24% (99 / 690 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

5241 brought · 1786 players

Brought to game

5241

Ever drawn

1194

Reached battlefield

690

Still on board at game end

364

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=626) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=3407).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=446).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.2pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1329 instances

2.3%

Library

27.4%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 153 decks
2 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 141 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 137 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 92 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 75 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 49 decks
7 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 48 decks
8 Shadow the Hedgehog 47 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 46 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 40 decks

Card text

Pitiless Plunderer

Creature — Human Pirate

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

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

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Palumbo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.