Live Play Data

Zara, Renegade Recruiter

· Legendary Creature — Human Pirate · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

206

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 26% (3 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

206 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

206

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=31) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=127).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=21).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

3.4%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

28.8%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Zara, Renegade Recruiter

Legendary Creature — Human Pirate

Flying Whenever Zara attacks, look at defending player's hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.