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Wave of Rats

· Creature — Rat · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

100

Decks Running

In Decks

204

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Wave of Rats

Creature — Rat

Trample When this creature dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Blitz {4}

(If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

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New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

Final zone distribution

36 instances

5.6%

Library

13.9%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

100 brought · 43 players

Brought to game

100

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 23% 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.

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=20) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=58).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

23%

36%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 23% (3 / 22 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.