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Ral Zarek

{2} {U} {R} · Legendary Planeswalker — Ral · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
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Times Brought
141
Decks Running
43
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

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

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Ral Zarek card

Ral Zarek

{2} {U} {R}
Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
+1: Tap target permanent, then untap another target permanent. −2: Ral Zarek deals 3 damage to any target. −7: Flip five coins. Take an extra turn after this one for each coin that comes up heads.
Loyalty 4
Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

Final zone distribution

37 instances
43.2%
Battlefield
24.3%
Graveyard
5.4%
Exile
27.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

141 brought · 82 players
Brought to game
141
Ever drawn
36
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=20) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=77).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25
4%
T1
8%
T2
12%
T3
20%
T4
8%
T5
28%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 44% (5 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.