Live Play Data

Scourge of the Throne

· Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1253

Decks Running

534

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=182

14%

59%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 50% (41 / 182 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1257 brought · 479 players

Brought to game

1257

Ever drawn

294

Reached battlefield

182

Still on board at game end

103

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=165) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=815).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=103).

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 +2.8pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

324 instances

2.2%

Library

31.8%

Battlefield

28.1%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Scourge of the Throne

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.