Live Play Data

Razorkin Needlehead

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2123

Decks Running

904

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=373

14%

12%

14%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 15% (53 / 373 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

2125 brought · 771 players

Brought to game

2125

Ever drawn

496

Reached battlefield

373

Still on board at game end

168

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=344) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1394).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=108).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

542 instances

5.7%

Library

31.0%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 188 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 149 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 66 decks
4 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 44 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 35 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 31 decks
7 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 30 decks
8 The Lord of Pain 28 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 26 decks
10 Norin the Wary 21 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.