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Pitiless Plunderer

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

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Times Brought

2225

Decks Running

1156

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

479 instances

2.3%

Library

38.8%

Battlefield

20.9%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 97 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 86 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 70 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 69 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 34 decks
6 Shadow the Hedgehog 26 decks
7 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 23 decks
8 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 22 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 21 decks
10 Mr. House, President and CEO 18 decks

The "good card" funnel

2225 brought · 961 players

Brought to game

2225

Ever drawn

431

Reached battlefield

253

Still on board at game end

186

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ +6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=192) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=122).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.2pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=253

20%

15%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (50 / 253 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.