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Thoughtcast

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

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Times Brought

873

Decks Running

466

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

162 instances

0.6%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

78.4%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 77 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 30 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 28 decks
4 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 28 decks
5 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 21 decks
6 Vraska, Soul of Stone 21 decks
7 Dr. Eggman 16 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 16 decks
9 Breya, Etherium Shaper 14 decks
10 Golbez, Crystal Collector 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

873 brought · 408 players

Brought to game

873

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

108

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=92) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=532).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=30).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=108

17%

20%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 44% (22 / 108 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.