Live Play Data

Sygg, River Cutthroat

· Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

389

Decks Running

190

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

15%

13%

15%

28%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 21% (12 / 78 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

389 brought · 189 players

Brought to game

389

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=53) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=21).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

1.0%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

16.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 84 decks
2 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 27 decks
3 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 25 decks
4 Davros, Dalek Creator 9 decks
5 Queza, Augur of Agonies 5 decks
6 Basim Ibn Ishaq 3 decks
7 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
8 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 2 decks
9 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 2 decks
10 Infinite Guideline Station 2 decks

Card text

Sygg, River Cutthroat

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jeremy Enecio

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.