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Ancestral Anger

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

148

Decks Running

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

Ancestral Anger

Sorcery

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Gonzalo Kenny

Final zone distribution

29 instances

10.3%

Library

6.9%

Battlefield

58.6%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 30 decks
2 Loki, God of Lies 5 decks
3 Feather, the Redeemed 4 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
6 Urabrask // The Great Work 3 decks
7 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 2 decks
8 Krark, the Thumbless 2 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 2 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

148 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

148

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=19) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=88).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

29%

19%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 5% (1 / 21 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.