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Live Play Data

Throat Slitter

{4} {B} · Creature — Rat Ninja · Planechase Anthology (PCA)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
191
Decks Running
95
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
70%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
13%
T4
28%
T5
44%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 44% (9 / 32 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

191 brought · 95 players
Brought to game
191
Ever drawn
46
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -21.1pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=28) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=117).

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 -6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -21.1pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

48 instances
4.2%
Library
33.3%
Battlefield
25.0%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Throat Slitter card

Throat Slitter

{4} {B}
Creature — Rat Ninja
Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.
2 / 2
Planechase Anthology (PCA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Paolo Parente

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.