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· Instant · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2694

Decks Running

1247

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=252

13%

57%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 2% (3 / 252 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

2697 brought · 997 players

Brought to game

2697

Ever drawn

556

Reached battlefield

252

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=235) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1784).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=271).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

653 instances

4.9%

Library

4.7%

Battlefield

43.0%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 46 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 45 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 44 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 38 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 37 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 35 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 25 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 24 decks
9 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 23 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 20 decks

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— Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1}

— Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eli Minaya

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.