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Archangel Elspeth

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

157

Decks Running

In Decks

366

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

43 instances

41.9%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

25.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 4 decks
3 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 4 decks
4 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
5 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion 3 decks
6 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 2 decks
7 Feroz, Ulgrotha's Warden 2 decks
8 Myrel, Shield of Argive 2 decks
9 The Council of Four 2 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 64 players

Brought to game

157

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=27) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=97).

Observed gap +21.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +39.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

21%

50%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 29% (6 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.