Live Play Data

Razorkin Needlehead

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

473

Decks Running

257

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

14%

19%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 15% (11 / 80 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

475 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

475

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=73) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=311).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=30).

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 -2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

119 instances

5.9%

Library

33.6%

Battlefield

32.8%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 46 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 35 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 25 decks
4 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 10 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 10 decks
6 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 10 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 9 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 9 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 8 decks
10 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 8 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.