Live Play Data

Undercover Operative

· Creature — Shapeshifter Rogue · Streets of New Capenna (SNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

112

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

61%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 15% (4 / 46 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=43) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=178).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=24).

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 +23.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +38.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

1.1%

Library

27.8%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 16 decks
2 Gyruda, Doom of Depths 10 decks
3 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces 6 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 5 decks
5 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 4 decks
6 Princess Yue 4 decks
7 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 3 decks
8 Braids, Conjurer Adept 3 decks
9 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 3 decks
10 Council of Reeds 3 decks

Card text

Undercover Operative

Creature — Shapeshifter Rogue

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with a shield counter on it if you control that creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

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Streets of New Capenna (SNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole

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.