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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

· Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

1129

Decks Running

573

In Decks

3961

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate

Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash {1}

(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

Final zone distribution

322 instances

4.0%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

41.0%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 21 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 15 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
5 Edward Kenway 13 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 13 decks
7 Winota, Joiner of Forces 13 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 12 decks
9 Jaws, Relentless Predator 11 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1129 brought · 451 players

Brought to game

1129

Ever drawn

279

Reached battlefield

225

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=210) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=705).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=46) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=225

31%

12%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 31% (70 / 225 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 69%

1018 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.