Live Play Data

Protector of the Wastes

· Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

111

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

27%

58%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 56% (11 / 45 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=40) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=182).

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 +16.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +32.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

3.1%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Protector of the Wastes

Creature — Dragon

Flying When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments controlled by different players. {4}

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

5 / 5

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Zezhou Chen

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.