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Live Play Data

Scourge of the Throne

{4} {R} {R} · Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1880
Decks Running
801
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
63%
Format

First-cast turn

n=261
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
8%
T4
16%
T5
57%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 49% (57 / 261 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1884 brought · 705 players
Brought to game
1884
Ever drawn
416
Reached battlefield
261
Still on board at game end
152

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=235) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=140).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

463 instances
2.6%
Library
32.8%
Battlefield
28.7%
Graveyard
8.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Scourge of the Throne card

Scourge of the Throne

{4} {R} {R}
Creature — Dragon
Flying Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever this creature attacks for the first time each turn, if it's attacking the player with the most life or tied for most life, untap all attacking creatures. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
5 / 5
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Michael Komarck

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.