Live Play Data

Raphael, the Muscle

· Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

491

Decks Running

175

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=98

10%

18%

51%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 31% (18 / 98 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

491 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

491

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=72) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=321).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 5% (n=32).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

3.3%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 88 decks
2 Heroes in a Half Shell 48 decks
3 Michelangelo, the Heart 15 decks
4 Wolverine, Best There Is 6 decks
5 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 decks
6 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
7 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 3 decks
8 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 3 decks
9 Red Hulk 2 decks
10 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 1 decks

Card text

Raphael, the Muscle

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

Double all damage that creatures you control with counters on them would deal. When Raphael enters, create a Mutagen token. Partner—Character select (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.