Live Play Data

Ajani, Strength of the Pride

· Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

779

Decks Running

315

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100

11%

18%

46%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 17% (11 / 100 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

779 brought · 287 players

Brought to game

779

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=92) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=533).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=52).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

174 instances

2.3%

Library

23.0%

Battlefield

24.7%

Graveyard

20.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ajani, Strength of the Pride

Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Loyalty 5

Core Set 2020 (M20) · Mythic · 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.