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Thunderclap Drake

· Creature — Drake · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

307

Decks Running

170

In Decks

1030

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Thunderclap Drake

Creature — Drake

Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. {2}

, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Kaitlyn McCulley

Final zone distribution

86 instances

27.9%

Battlefield

38.4%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

20.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

308 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

308

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=52) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=202).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 50% (n=20) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=56

11%

20%

14%

30%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 30% (11 / 56 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

56 of 100 times cast 56%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.