Live Play Data

Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant

· Legendary Creature — Human Druid · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

447

Decks Running

220

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

20%

14%

12%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 29% (13 / 65 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

447 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

447

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=58) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=312).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

4.7%

Library

29.4%

Battlefield

41.2%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 129 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 17 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 11 decks
4 Ureni of the Unwritten 8 decks
5 Rivaz of the Claw 5 decks
6 Tiamat 5 decks
7 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 4 decks
8 Nogi, Draco-Zealot 3 decks
9 Smaug, Wicked Worm 3 decks
10 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest 2 decks

Card text

Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant

Legendary Creature — Human Druid

When Sarkhan enters, you may behold a Dragon. If you do, create a Treasure token. (To behold a Dragon, choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.) Whenever a Dragon you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarkhan. Until end of turn, Sarkhan becomes a Dragon in addition to his other types and gains flying.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Billy Christian

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.