Live Play Data

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· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4802

Decks Running

2391

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=969

14%

12%

11%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 14% (132 / 969 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

4805 brought · 1740 players

Brought to game

4805

Ever drawn

1334

Reached battlefield

969

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=882) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2859).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=329).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.2pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1498 instances

3.1%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

67.1%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ponder

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.