Live Play Data

Springleaf Drum

· Artifact · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

584

Decks Running

304

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

2% of tracked Commander decks run Springleaf Drum. When drawn, 75% of copies reach the battlefield, with a median first-cast turn of 3.

Springleaf Drum is a niche but purposeful piece of mana acceleration across Playgroup Live's tracked Commander games. Sitting in 304 of 15835 tracked decks at a 2% inclusion rate, it earns its slot in specific creature-dense strategies rather than filling a universal staple role.

The card's story is in how efficiently it converts to action. Of 150 drawn copies, 75% were cast before the game ended. Median first cast lands on turn 3, and 71% of drawn-and-cast copies went down the same turn they were picked up. Players who draw this card tend to deploy it immediately. The 81% battlefield stickiness once resolved suggests that, when Springleaf Drum does hit the table, opponents rarely prioritize removing a 1-mana mana rock.

The top commanders tell the clearest story: Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy and Magda, Brazen Outlaw lead the list, both commanders that reward tapping creatures for value. Red-heavy and creature-token strategies dominate, pointing to a card that overperforms specifically when untapped creatures are plentiful and cheap. Data is spread across 270 distinct players, with the single heaviest contributor accounting for 7% of tracked instances, giving reasonable breadth to the signal.

At a glance

2% of tracked Commander decks include Springleaf Drum
75% of drawn copies were cast before the game ended
T3 median first-cast turn
71% of drawn-and-cast copies hit the battlefield the same turn they were drawn
81% battlefield stickiness once cast
270 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game

First-cast turn

n=113

27%

15%

12%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 27% (30 / 113 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 71%

The "good card" funnel

584 brought · 270 players

Brought to game

584

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

113

Still on board at game end

75%

Of 584 copies brought to games, 150 were drawn, 113 of those were cast, and 81% of resolved copies remained on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=101) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=378).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=32) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

164 instances

2.4%

Library

56.1%

Battlefield

20.7%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Most Springleaf Drums that were meaningfully tracked ended on the battlefield or graveyard, a sharper finishing distribution than a purely library-bound card would show, though most brought copies still never left the library across all deck participations.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The top-commander list skews heavily toward creature-token and tap-for-value strategies, with Kinnan and Magda leading, suggesting the card earns its slot in focused synergy builds rather than as a generalist mana rock.

Frequently Asked

How often is Springleaf Drum drawn in a Commander game?

In 544 tracked multiplayer Commander games where Springleaf Drum was in the deck, it was drawn 26% of the time. That draw rate is consistent with a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 150 instances that reached a player's hand, 75% were cast before the game ended.

What turn does Springleaf Drum typically get cast?

Median first cast is turn 3. The distribution has a clear early cluster: the single most common cast turn is turn 1, reflecting opening-hand keepable hands in fast creature decks. The 25th percentile lands on turn 1 and the 75th on turn 6, so the range is wide. Players who draw it early tend to act on it immediately: 71% of drawn-and-cast copies were deployed the same turn they were drawn.

Which commanders most often run Springleaf Drum?

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy and Magda, Brazen Outlaw each appear at the top of the commander list in Playgroup Live's tracked data. Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh, Norin the Wary, and Kona, Rescue Beastie follow closely. The pattern is consistent: commanders that reward tapping or generating cheap creatures make the best use of a drum that needs an untapped creature to activate.

Is the win-rate lift from casting Springleaf Drum meaningful?

The observed cast-vs-library win-rate delta is a directional positive in this dataset. However, the confidence interval is wide enough that the lower bound crosses zero, so we cannot treat it as a conclusive effect. With 101 cast observations and 378 library observations, this is an early signal rather than a proven edge. Decks that cast the drum may simply be faster or more synergistic decks, not necessarily decks that win because of the drum specifically.

Is Springleaf Drum legal in Commander?

Yes. Springleaf Drum is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Oathbreaker, and most other major formats. It is not legal in Old School or Premodern. It carries a colorless identity, meaning it slots into any Commander deck regardless of color restrictions, which is part of its quiet appeal in strategies that need non-land mana sources without color constraints.

How concentrated is this data among a small number of players?

Springleaf Drum data spans 270 distinct players on Playgroup Live, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for 7% of all tracked instances. That is a reasonable spread for a niche card, and no single player's preferences are likely to distort the aggregate picture significantly. Still, with 113 total casts in the dataset, treat all percentages here as directional rather than statistically definitive.