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Runaway Steam-Kin

· Creature — Elemental · Guilds of Ravnica (GRN)

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Times Brought

532

Decks Running

258

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

121 instances

3.3%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

24.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 27 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 16 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
4 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 11 decks
5 The Scarlet Witch 11 decks
6 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 8 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 7 decks
9 Urabrask // The Great Work 7 decks
10 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

532 brought · 236 players

Brought to game

532

Ever drawn

107

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.

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=63) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=308).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21).

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 -5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +1.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80

31%

14%

16%

15%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 33% (25 / 80 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.