Live Play Data

Runaway Steam-Kin

· Creature — Elemental · Guilds of Ravnica (GRN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

693

Decks Running

327

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=127

13%

23%

11%

13%

14%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 36% (29 / 127 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

694 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

694

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=117) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=443).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=36).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

180 instances

3.9%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 25 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 23 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 15 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 13 decks
5 Feather, the Redeemed 12 decks
6 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 11 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 10 decks
8 Urabrask // The Great Work 9 decks
9 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 7 decks
10 Vivi Ornitier 7 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.