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Whitemane Lion

{1} {W} · Creature — Cat · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
Times Brought
127
Decks Running
64
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Whitemane Lion card

Whitemane Lion

{1} {W}
Creature — Cat
Flash When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
2 / 2
Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Common · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Final zone distribution

32 instances
37.5%
Battlefield
18.8%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile
37.5%
Hand

The "good card" funnel

127 brought · 60 players
Brought to game
127
Ever drawn
30
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
12

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -20.7pp

Players who cast this card win 10% of the time (n=20) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=71).

Observed gap -10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -20.7pp to +0.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
0%
T4
10%
T5
67%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17
On curve 0% (0 / 21 cast on T2)
21 of 100 times cast 21%

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Frequently Asked

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.