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

245

Decks Running

119

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

12%

64%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 26% (3 / 42 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

245 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

245

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=37) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

68 instances

2.9%

Library

32.4%

Battlefield

29.4%

Graveyard

10.3%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.