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Live Play Data

Rakdos, the Muscle

{2} {B} {B} {R} · Legendary Creature — Demon Mercenary · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
221
Decks Running
93
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41
2%
T1
2%
T2
2%
T3
10%
T4
17%
T5
54%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 34% (7 / 41 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

221 brought · 92 players
Brought to game
221
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
20

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=30) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=150).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=16).

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 +20.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +36.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances
1.8%
Library
36.4%
Battlefield
21.8%
Graveyard
9.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Rakdos, the Muscle card

Rakdos, the Muscle

{2} {B} {B} {R}
Legendary Creature — Demon Mercenary
Flying, trample Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.
6 / 5
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Mythic · Illustrated by Victor Maury

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.