Live Play Data

Sarkhan's Triumph

· Instant · Dragons of Tarkir (DTK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

694

Decks Running

250

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=84

18%

10%

15%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 20% (15 / 84 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

694 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

694

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=77) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=487).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=47).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

3.4%

Library

0.7%

Battlefield

64.1%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 70 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 39 decks
3 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 21 decks
4 Ureni of the Unwritten 16 decks
5 Tiamat 13 decks
6 Atarka, World Render 11 decks
7 Rivaz of the Claw 10 decks
8 Ganax, Astral Hunter 7 decks
9 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient 6 decks
10 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame 4 decks

Card text

Sarkhan's Triumph

Instant

Search your library for a Dragon creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dragons of Tarkir (DTK) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.