Live Play Data

Runaway Steam-Kin

· Creature — Elemental · Guilds of Ravnica (GRN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

476

Decks Running

241

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=92

11%

22%

12%

14%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 33% (20 / 92 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

477 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

477

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=86) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=304).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=25).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

124 instances

4.0%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 20 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 15 decks
3 Feather, the Redeemed 10 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 9 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 9 decks
6 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 8 decks
7 Urabrask // The Great Work 8 decks
8 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 6 decks
9 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 6 decks
10 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot 5 decks

Card text

Runaway Steam-Kin

Creature — Elemental

Whenever you cast a red spell, if this creature has fewer than three +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove three +1/+1 counters from this creature: Add {R}

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Guilds of Ravnica (GRN) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Felix

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.