Live Play Data

Transcendent Dragon

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

284

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

68%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 18% (5 / 40 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

The "good card" funnel

284 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

284

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=33) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=34).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

81 instances

7.4%

Library

23.5%

Battlefield

25.9%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Transcendent Dragon

Creature — Dragon

Flash Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it, counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard, then you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Diego Gisbert

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.