Live Play Data

Animar, Soul of Elements

· Legendary Creature — Elemental · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

319

Decks Running

155

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=207

19%

39%

12%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 59% (80 / 207 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

319 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

319

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=61) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=181).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=19).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +28.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

1.0%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

28.1%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature — Elemental

Protection from white and from black Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar. Creature spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

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Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Filip Burburan

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.