Live Play Data

Ruin Crab

· Creature — Crab · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1984

Decks Running

860

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=368

23%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 23% (86 / 368 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

1984 brought · 752 players

Brought to game

1984

Ever drawn

451

Reached battlefield

368

Still on board at game end

185

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=341) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=1242).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=78).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

580 instances

2.6%

Library

31.9%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 167 decks
2 Homer, the Hermit 101 decks
3 Captain N'ghathrod 70 decks
4 Hope Estheim 69 decks
5 The Mindskinner 62 decks
6 Phenax, God of Deception 46 decks
7 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 43 decks
8 Saruman of Many Colors 20 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of Creation 18 decks
10 Umbris, Fear Manifest 15 decks

Card text

Ruin Crab

Creature — Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.