Live Play Data

Tyrant's Familiar

· Creature — Dragon · Commander Anthology Volume II (CM2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

870

Decks Running

378

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

17%

59%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 59% (20 / 121 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

870 brought · 357 players

Brought to game

870

Ever drawn

193

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=109) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=554).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=66).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.3pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

209 instances

3.8%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

30.6%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Tyrant's Familiar

Creature — Dragon

Flying, haste Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

5 / 5

Commander Anthology Volume II (CM2) · Rare · Illustrated by Todd Lockwood

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.