Live Play Data

Zada, Hedron Grinder

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Ally · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

298

Decks Running

129

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=169

18%

26%

21%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 51% (44 / 169 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

298 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

298

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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 41% of the time (n=48) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=180).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=23).

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 +15.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +30.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

6.9%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

32.2%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.