Live Play Data

Austere Command

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7221

Decks Running

3223

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=914

66%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 30% (159 / 914 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

7226 brought · 2377 players

Brought to game

7226

Ever drawn

1630

Reached battlefield

914

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=846) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=4713).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=635).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1802 instances

4.2%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

48.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 302 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 281 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 229 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 45 decks
5 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 40 decks
6 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 39 decks
7 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 39 decks
8 Dr. Madison Li 38 decks
9 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 37 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 30 decks

Card text

Austere Command

Sorcery

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen

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.