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Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

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

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Times Brought

925

Decks Running

433

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

214 instances

3.3%

Library

40.2%

Battlefield

10.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 137 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 79 decks
3 Felothar the Steadfast 44 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 34 decks
5 Doran, Besieged by Time 12 decks
6 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 10 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 8 decks
8 Kathril, Aspect Warper 7 decks
9 Dihada, Binder of Wills 6 decks
10 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

926 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

926

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=95) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=516).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=64).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=119

13%

66%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 77% (22 / 119 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.