Live Play Data

Release the Dogs

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

253

Decks Running

127

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

14%

63%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 17% (5 / 35 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

253 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

253

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=33) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=173).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +28.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

62.5%

Graveyard

1.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Release the Dogs

Sorcery

Create four 1/1 white Dog creature tokens.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Kang

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.