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Live Play Data

Plague Stinger

{1} {B} · Creature — Phyrexian Insect Horror · Scars of Mirrodin (SOM)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
226
Decks Running
129
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
89%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33
6%
T1
24%
T2
15%
T3
9%
T4
9%
T5
36%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 9
On curve 30% (8 / 33 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

226 brought · 117 players
Brought to game
226
Ever drawn
37
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=29) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=153).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances
4.7%
Library
37.2%
Battlefield
37.2%
Graveyard
11.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Plague Stinger card

Plague Stinger

{1} {B}
Creature — Phyrexian Insect Horror
Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
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Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) · Common · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.