Live Play Data

Thirst for Knowledge

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1213

Decks Running

654

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180

11%

53%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 21

On curve 8% (14 / 180 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1213 brought · 591 players

Brought to game

1213

Ever drawn

302

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=164) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=752).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=110).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

326 instances

3.7%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

61.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 113 decks
2 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 76 decks
3 Kilo, Apogee Mind 61 decks
4 The Borg Queen 52 decks
5 Dr. Madison Li 33 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 19 decks
7 Golbez, Crystal Collector 17 decks
8 Liberty Prime, Recharged 15 decks
9 Mishra, Eminent One 13 decks
10 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 12 decks

Card text

Thirst for Knowledge

Instant

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bartek Fedyczak

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.