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Academy Rector

· Creature — Human Cleric · Urza's Destiny (UDS)

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Times Brought

275

Decks Running

109

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Academy Rector

Creature — Human Cleric

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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Urza's Destiny (UDS) · Rare · Illustrated by Heather Hudson

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

23.1%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

28.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Whtz, the Bibliophile 19 decks
2 Ashling, the Limitless 3 decks
3 Edgar Markov 3 decks
4 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 3 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 3 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 2 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
9 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 2 decks
10 Brion Stoutarm 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 32% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=174).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

14%

16%

41%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 27% (5 / 37 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.