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Live Play Data

Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

{3} {R} {R} · Legendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan · Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
160
Decks Running
70
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
62%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
0%
T4
38%
T5
57%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 38% (8 / 21 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 66 players
Brought to game
160
Ever drawn
34
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
8

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=21) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=99).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +27.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances
5.3%
Library
21.1%
Battlefield
31.6%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker card

Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

{3} {R} {R}
Legendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan
+1: Until end of turn, Sarkhan becomes a legendary 4/4 red Dragon creature with flying, indestructible, and haste. (He doesn't lose loyalty while he's not a planeswalker.) −3: Sarkhan deals 4 damage to target creature. −6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards" and "At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand."
Loyalty 4
Khans of Tarkir (KTK) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daarken

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.