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Spectral Sailor

{U} · Creature — Spirit Pirate · Foundations (FDN)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
210
Decks Running
108
In Decks
778
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format

Final zone distribution

56 instances
23.2%
Battlefield
44.6%
Graveyard
14.3%
Exile
17.9%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

211 brought · 101 players
Brought to game
211
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
40
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 33% 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.

≥ -15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=37) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=129).

Observed gap -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -15.3pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40
30%
T1
15%
T2
15%
T3
8%
T4
3%
T5
23%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14
On curve 30% (12 / 40 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%
40 of 100 times cast 40%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.