Live Play Data

Razorkin Needlehead

· Creature — Human Assassin · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1219

Decks Running

553

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=219

12%

16%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 17% (27 / 219 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1221 brought · 478 players

Brought to game

1221

Ever drawn

284

Reached battlefield

219

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=203) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=798).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=57).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

306 instances

6.5%

Library

33.0%

Battlefield

37.3%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 122 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 79 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 51 decks
4 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 24 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 22 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 20 decks
7 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 20 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 19 decks
9 The Lord of Pain 17 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 13 decks

Card text

Razorkin Needlehead

Creature — Human Assassin

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Rare · Illustrated by Riccardo Federici

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.