Live Play Data

Taurean Mauler

· Creature — Shapeshifter · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2418

Decks Running

1155

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=443

20%

14%

11%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 23% (88 / 443 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2420 brought · 1017 players

Brought to game

2420

Ever drawn

578

Reached battlefield

443

Still on board at game end

236

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=406) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1563).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=115).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

624 instances

2.4%

Library

37.8%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Taurean Mauler

Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dominick Domingo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.