Live Play Data

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

601

Decks Running

312

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=85

14%

61%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 60% (9 / 85 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

601 brought · 286 players

Brought to game

601

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=78) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=388).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=50).

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 +17.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +28.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances

3.8%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

13.8%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 92 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 60 decks
3 Felothar the Steadfast 32 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 29 decks
5 Kathril, Aspect Warper 11 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 8 decks
7 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 6 decks
8 Breena, the Demagogue 5 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 5 decks
10 Doran, the Siege Tower 4 decks

Card text

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

4 / 8

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.