Live Play Data

Thickest in the Thicket

· Enchantment · Foundations Commander (FDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

763

Decks Running

348

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

10%

15%

61%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 30% (16 / 104 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

764 brought · 324 players

Brought to game

764

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=95) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=499).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=61).

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 +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

191 instances

4.2%

Library

44.0%

Battlefield

19.4%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Thickest in the Thicket

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power. At the beginning of your end step, draw two cards if you control the creature with the greatest power or tied for the greatest power.

Foundations Commander (FDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Michele Giorgi

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.