Live Play Data

Strong, the Brutish Thespian

· Legendary Creature — Mutant Berserker · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

338

Decks Running

161

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

30%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

338 brought · 152 players

Brought to game

338

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=15) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=209).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=38).

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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +33.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

1.2%

Library

11.6%

Battlefield

37.2%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 142 decks
2 The Master, Transcendent 8 decks
3 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 2 decks
4 Agent Frank Horrigan 1 decks
5 Akawalli, the Seething Tower 1 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
7 Sarevok, Deathbringer 1 decks
8 Thantis, the Warweaver 1 decks
9 Venom, Deadly Devourer 1 decks
10 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 1 decks

Card text

Strong, the Brutish Thespian

Legendary Creature — Mutant Berserker

Ward

Enrage — Whenever Strong is dealt damage, you get three rad counters and put three +1/+1 counters on Strong. You gain life rather than lose life from radiation.

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Fallout (PIP) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.