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Thunderclap Drake

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

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Times Brought

173

Decks Running

100

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

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

48 instances

2.1%

Library

22.9%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

173 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

173

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=33) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=94).

Observed gap +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

29%

17%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 34% (10 / 35 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

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

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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.