Live Play Data

Singer of Swift Rivers

· Creature — Merfolk Shaman · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

162

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

73%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 5% (1 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

162 brought · 83 players

Brought to game

162

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=21) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=101).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=15).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +24.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

4.8%

Library

19.0%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Singer of Swift Rivers

Creature — Merfolk Shaman

Flash When this creature enters, put a shield counter on another target creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) You may cast Merfolk spells as though they had flash.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Gabor Szikszai

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.