Live Play Data

Pongify

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6798

Decks Running

2984

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1299

16%

56%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 25

On curve 0% (4 / 1299 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

6804 brought · 2093 players

Brought to game

6804

Ever drawn

1835

Reached battlefield

1299

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1189) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=4149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=471).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2044 instances

3.4%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

62.8%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Pongify

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Andreia Ugrai

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.