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Live Play Data

Smokebraider

{1} {R} · Creature — Elemental Shaman · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
189
Decks Running
99
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
78%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45
11%
T1
13%
T2
4%
T3
11%
T4
9%
T5
40%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15
On curve 24% (6 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

189 brought · 89 players
Brought to game
189
Ever drawn
58
Reached battlefield
45
Still on board at game end
25

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=43) , vs 24% 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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances
39.1%
Battlefield
35.9%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile
18.8%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Smokebraider card

Smokebraider

{1} {R}
Creature — Elemental Shaman
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elementals.
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Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Common · Illustrated by Anthony S. Waters

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.