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Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage

· Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

215

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage

Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier

Flash First strike Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, Anafenza endures 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on it or create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token.)

2 / 2

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

Final zone distribution

30 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Millicent, Restless Revenant 5 decks
2 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 3 decks
3 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 3 decks
5 Duskana, the Rage Mother 2 decks
6 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 2 decks
7 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza 1 decks
8 Anafenza, the Foremost 1 decks
9 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 1 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

82 brought · 41 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -27.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=20) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=45).

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 -27.5pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

35%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 35% (8 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.