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Runaway Steam-Kin

· Creature — Elemental · Guilds of Ravnica (GRN)

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

154

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

69 instances

44.9%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

18.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 19 decks
2 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 9 decks
3 The Scarlet Witch 9 decks
4 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 8 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 6 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 6 decks
7 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 5 decks
8 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 5 decks
9 Urabrask // The Great Work 5 decks
10 Thor, God of Thunder 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=37) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=162).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

17%

23%

15%

13%

15%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 11

On curve 40% (11 / 47 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

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 subset of that corpus.