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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

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

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Times Brought

2742

Decks Running

1305

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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.)

2 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

637 instances

2.5%

Library

36.6%

Battlefield

35.6%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 50 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 43 decks
3 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 42 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 41 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 40 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 35 decks
7 Edward Kenway 29 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 29 decks
9 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 24 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 23 decks

The "good card" funnel

2744 brought · 995 players

Brought to game

2744

Ever drawn

589

Reached battlefield

460

Still on board at game end

233

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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=426) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1787).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=110).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=493

33%

14%

11%

10%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 33% (161 / 493 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.