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Pitiless Plunderer

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

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Times Brought

677

Decks Running

391

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

2.9%

Library

34.3%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 31 decks
2 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 29 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 27 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 24 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 9 decks
7 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 8 decks
8 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 7 decks
9 Ygra, Eater of All 7 decks
10 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

677 brought · 344 players

Brought to game

677

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=49) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=428).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=44) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

22%

15%

38%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 31% (14 / 65 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

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.