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Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

475

Decks Running

247

In Decks

1678

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

120 instances

2.5%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

14.2%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 74 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 44 decks
3 Felothar the Steadfast 28 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 26 decks
5 Kathril, Aspect Warper 8 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 7 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 5 decks
8 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 5 decks
9 Doran, the Siege Tower 4 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

475 brought · 227 players

Brought to game

475

Ever drawn

111

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.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=59) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=323).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=37) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +17.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +30.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

14%

63%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 65% (7 / 65 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.