Live Play Data

Railway Brawler

· Creature — Rhino Warrior · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

486

Decks Running

242

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=67

10%

22%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 45% (15 / 67 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

486 brought · 225 players

Brought to game

486

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=61) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=314).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=34).

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 +13.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

3.3%

Library

31.7%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 18 decks
2 Helga, Skittish Seer 18 decks
3 Radagast of Rhosgobel 15 decks
4 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 13 decks
5 Indominus Rex, Alpha 13 decks
6 Kellan, the Kid 13 decks
7 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 10 decks
8 The Muckslinger Gang 9 decks
9 Ruby, Daring Tracker 7 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks

Card text

Railway Brawler

Creature — Rhino Warrior

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}

(You may pay {3}

and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

5 / 5

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kevin Sidharta

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.