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Live Play Data

Archangel Elspeth

{2} {W} {W} · Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth · March of the Machine (MOM)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
367
Decks Running
130
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
68%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
13%
T4
13%
T5
53%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18
On curve 18% (8 / 60 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

367 brought · 105 players
Brought to game
367
Ever drawn
88
Reached battlefield
60
Still on board at game end
36

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.

≥ +8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=52) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=21).

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 +22.2pp; 95% confidence interval +8.9pp to +35.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances
3.3%
Library
39.1%
Battlefield
28.3%
Graveyard
2.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Archangel Elspeth card

Archangel Elspeth

{2} {W} {W}
Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth
+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink. −2: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types and gains flying. −6: Return all nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Loyalty 4
March of the Machine (MOM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Cynthia Sheppard

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.