Live Play Data

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· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1218

Decks Running

561

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=155

10%

57%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 8% (7 / 155 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1218 brought · 513 players

Brought to game

1218

Ever drawn

263

Reached battlefield

155

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=138) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=826).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=99).

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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

286 instances

6.3%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

54.5%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 51 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 33 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 29 decks
5 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 28 decks
6 The Borg Queen 22 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 18 decks
8 Leinore, Autumn Sovereign 15 decks
9 Darien, King of Kjeldor 13 decks
10 The Fourth Doctor 12 decks

Card text

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Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lordigan

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.