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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

{R} · Legendary Creature — Monkey Pirate · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
Times Brought
1212
Decks Running
621
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer card

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

{R}
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}{R} (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

280 instances
3.6%
Library
36.1%
Battlefield
36.1%
Graveyard
6.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1214 brought · 505 players
Brought to game
1214
Ever drawn
262
Reached battlefield
199
Still on board at game end
101

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=164) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=664).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=45).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=206
32%
T1
15%
T2
13%
T3
7%
T4
13%
T5
15%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 13
On curve 32% (66 / 206 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 74%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.