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Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain LCI 0266 · rare

Throne of the Grim Captain · {2} · Legendary Artifact · {T}: Mill two cards. Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Throne of the Grim Captain · {2} · Legendary Artifact · {T}: Mill two cards. Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

The Grim Captain · Legendary Creature — Skeleton Spirit Pirate · Menace, trample, lifelink, hexproof Whenever The Grim Captain attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice. Then you may put an exiled creature card used to craft The Grim Captain onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking. · Power / toughness: 7/7

Price
from $0.242 printings
Win rate
57.8% GIH 4,978 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 2,877 wins in 4,978 card-in-hand instances.

4,907 distinct games · 1,833 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

57.8%when drawn (GIH)

+2.5 pp vs 55.3% average · 4,978 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games

#55 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.7 on average (20,271 packs).

6 of 42 black cards · 4 of 9 black rare cards.

Taken at pick4.25,071 picks
Makes the deck36.8%5,071 picks with known usage
When played51.7%9,633.2 matchesBenched 55.2%
15,769.8 matches
When drawn57.8%4,978 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 58.3% · 1,967 instances
● Drawn later 57.5% · 3,011 instances

In hand 57.8% · 4,978 instances
Unseen in deck 46.9% · 6,017 instances
+10.9 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn57.8%4,978 instances6 of 42
Opening hand58.3%1,967 instances4 of 42
Drawn later57.5%3,011 instances13 of 42
In the deck52.0%11,187 instances27 of 42
Without seeing it46.9%6,017 instances41 of 42
Improvement when drawn+10.9 pp4,978 instances / 6,017 instances2 of 42
When benched55.2%15,769.8 matches13 of 42
Makes the deck36.8%5,071 picks with known usage32 of 42
Pick (last seen)3.720,271 packs14 of 42
Taken at4.25,071 picks14 of 42

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Echoes of the Dead UB61.1%1,520 instancesFungal Festering BG58.9% ◌397 instancesOltec Ingenuity WU56.6% ◌205 instancesRiver Herald Expedition UG66.7%3 instances · under 100Dusk Legion Pilgrimage WB53.8%26 instances · under 100Thousand-Moon Legion RW50.0%2 instances · under 100Going Down! BR37.5%32 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.8% · 4,978 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Echo of Dusk5,806 games with both in the deckRampaging Spiketail5,262 games with both in the deckWaterwind Scout4,771 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 78% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023

Collect

2 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LCI 0266 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.30
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.24

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 75 packs (1.33%) · 14.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 2,260 packs (0.04%) · 1.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 113 packs (0.89%) · 27.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 823 packs (0.12%) · 3.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 69 packs (1.45%) · 35.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Draft BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Set BoosterMain-set rare or mythic100%Main-set rare or mythic
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterWildcards100% per positionWildcards
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic85.3%Rare

Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Tiffany Turrill, LCI 266 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗