Live Play Data

Archangel Elspeth

· Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

498

Decks Running

167

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=75

12%

13%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 19% (9 / 75 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

498 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

498

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=62) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=302).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=27).

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 +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +30.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

119 instances

3.4%

Library

39.5%

Battlefield

26.1%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Archangel Elspeth

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.