Card Preview

Thunderbreak Regent

· Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

748

Decks Running

378

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Thunderbreak Regent

Creature — Dragon

Flying Whenever a Dragon you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

4 / 4

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

Final zone distribution

154 instances

5.8%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

22.7%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 126 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 62 decks
3 Atarka, World Render 60 decks
4 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 21 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 15 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 15 decks
7 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 14 decks
8 Rivaz of the Claw 8 decks
9 Ganax, Astral Hunter 6 decks
10 Tiamat 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

750 brought · 346 players

Brought to game

750

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=74) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=415).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=35).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=104

12%

23%

11%

37%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 43% (24 / 104 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.