Live Play Data

Ancestral Mask

· Enchantment — Aura · Eternal Masters (EMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

613

Decks Running

280

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=118

19%

18%

48%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 3% (3 / 118 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

613 brought · 260 players

Brought to game

613

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=106) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=386).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=40).

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 +23.1pp; 95% confidence interval +13.4pp to +32.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

171 instances

1.8%

Library

41.5%

Battlefield

29.2%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ancestral Mask

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield.

Eternal Masters (EMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.