Live Play Data

Zada, Hedron Grinder

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Ally · Foundations Jumpstart (J25)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

344

Decks Running

152

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=202

14%

27%

21%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 46% (54 / 202 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

344 brought · 139 players

Brought to game

344

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=54) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=32).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +26.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

6.3%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Feather, the Redeemed 43 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 24 decks
3 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician 6 decks
4 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 5 decks
5 The Howling Abomination 5 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
7 Gut, True Soul Zealot 3 decks
8 Monica Rambeau // Photon, Living Light 3 decks
9 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 decks
10 Speedball, New Warrior 3 decks

Card text

Zada, Hedron Grinder

Legendary Creature — Goblin Ally

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Zada, copy that spell for each other creature you control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

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Foundations Jumpstart (J25) · Rare · Illustrated by Takotto

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.