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Raphael, the Muscle

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

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Times Brought

410

Decks Running

158

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

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

45.1%

Battlefield

18.3%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 78 decks
2 Heroes in a Half Shell 49 decks
3 Michelangelo, the Heart 11 decks
4 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 decks
5 Donatello, the Brains 3 decks
6 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 3 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 2 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
9 Shalai and Hallar 2 decks
10 The Thirteenth Doctor 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

411 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

411

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=33) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=260).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67

24%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 31% (16 / 67 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.