Live Play Data

Star Athlete

· Creature — Human Warrior · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

375

Decks Running

195

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

23%

12%

43%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 23% (14 / 60 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

376 brought · 187 players

Brought to game

376

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 30% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=56) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=238).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=20).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

2.1%

Library

18.8%

Battlefield

47.9%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 113 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 16 decks
3 Gornog, the Red Reaper 10 decks
4 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 7 decks
5 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
6 The Jolly Balloon Man 5 decks
7 Ares, God of War 4 decks
8 Wulfgar of Icewind Dale 4 decks
9 Combustion Man 2 decks
10 J. Jonah Jameson 2 decks

Card text

Star Athlete

Creature — Human Warrior

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, choose up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller may sacrifice it. If they don't, this creature deals 5 damage to that player. Blitz {3}

(If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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.