Live Play Data

Ancestral Communion

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

489

Decks Running

209

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

67%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 2% (1 / 64 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

489 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

489

Ever drawn

102

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=58) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=294).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=30).

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 +19.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.8pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

0.9%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

61.9%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 176 decks
2 Mole Man, Moloid Master 3 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
4 Doran, Besieged by Time 2 decks
5 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 2 decks
6 Aerith, Last Ancient 1 decks
7 Bast, Panther Goddess 1 decks
8 Black Panther, Vanguard 1 decks
9 Diamond Weapon 1 decks
10 Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 1 decks

Card text

Ancestral Communion

Sorcery

When you cast this spell while you control your commander, copy this spell. You may choose a new target for the copy. Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nereida

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.