Live Play Data

River Kelpie

· Creature — Beast · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

299

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

14%

19%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 32% (7 / 37 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

302 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

302

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=31) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=31).

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 +17.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

97 instances

1.0%

Library

24.7%

Battlefield

45.4%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

River Kelpie

Creature — Beast

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jeff Easley

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.