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Live Play Data

The Sound of Drums

{2} {R} · Enchantment — Aura · Doctor Who (WHO)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
228
Decks Running
113
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
62%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
13%
T4
22%
T5
48%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10
On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 110 players
Brought to game
231
Ever drawn
37
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
9

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=21) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=169).

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 +17.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +38.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances
23.1%
Battlefield
46.2%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile
25.6%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
The Sound of Drums card

The Sound of Drums

{2} {R}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature is goaded. If enchanted creature would deal combat damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead. {2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Doctor Who (WHO) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexandr Leskinen

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.