Live Play Data

Thoughtcast

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1450

Decks Running

695

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=247

13%

21%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 42% (53 / 247 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1450 brought · 622 players

Brought to game

1450

Ever drawn

356

Reached battlefield

247

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=223) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=934).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=101).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

384 instances

2.6%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

68.0%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 97 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 36 decks
3 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 35 decks
4 Vraska, Soul of Stone 33 decks
5 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 32 decks
6 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 31 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 27 decks
8 Golbez, Crystal Collector 24 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 24 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 18 decks

Card text

Thoughtcast

Sorcery

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Common · Illustrated by Camille Alquier

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.