Live Play Data

Scute Swarm

· Creature — Insect · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

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Times Brought

4668

Decks Running

2019

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=930

14%

17%

14%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 22% (128 / 930 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

4670 brought · 1580 players

Brought to game

4670

Ever drawn

1215

Reached battlefield

930

Still on board at game end

500

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=839) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2882).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=260).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +8.4pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1384 instances

3.0%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Scute Swarm

Creature — Insect

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

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Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Joel Chaim Holtzman

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.