Live Play Data

Spectral Sailor

· Creature — Spirit Pirate · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

592

Decks Running

297

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=115

26%

11%

10%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 26% (30 / 115 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

593 brought · 278 players

Brought to game

593

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

115

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=105) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=369).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=35).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

168 instances

4.2%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

43.5%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Spectral Sailor

Creature — Spirit Pirate

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying {3}

: Draw a card.

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Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.