Live Play Data

Authority of the Consuls

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1039

Decks Running

571

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

87% of drawn Authority of the Consuls copies are cast before the game ends, the strongest draw-to-play signal among white taxing enchantments tracked on Playgroup Live, with a median first-cast turn of 4.5.

Authority of the Consuls sits in 8% of the 7280 distinct Commander decks that have played a tracked game on Playgroup Live. That is a focused niche rather than a blanket staple, but within white-based life-gain and stax strategies it appears with real regularity across 571 decks.

The standout number is draw-to-play rate: 87% of copies that reach a player's hand are cast before the game ends. Median first-cast turn lands at 4.5, and the cast-turn distribution clusters hard at turn 1, reflecting how naturally the card fits into an opening hand at 1 mana. Players are not holding this card; they are resolving it fast. The 66% battlefield stickiness figure tells a complementary story: once it resolves, opponents rarely have an easy answer.

The commander distribution is notably well-spread. 479 unique players have brought this card to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 1% of all instances. That breadth adds weight to the directional signals we see here, even given Playgroup Live's still-growing dataset.

At a glance

8% of tracked Commander decks include Authority of the Consuls
87% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
T4.5 median first-cast turn, driven by a strong turn-1 cluster
66% battlefield stickiness once the enchantment resolves
479 unique players have brought this card to a tracked game
571 tracked decks currently running Authority of the Consuls

First-cast turn

n=220

27%

11%

30%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 27

On curve 27% (59 / 220 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 69%

The "good card" funnel

1042 brought · 479 players

Brought to game

1042

Ever drawn

254

Reached battlefield

220

Still on board at game end

145

87%

Of 1042 copies brought to games, 254 were drawn, 220 of those were cast, and 66% of resolved copies were still on the battlefield when the game ended.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=207) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=661).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=30) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances

4.4%

Library

53.7%

Battlefield

23.7%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Most instances never leave the library, as expected from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of copies that did resolve, the majority remained on the battlefield through game's end, a strong signal for a 1-mana enchantment.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed dominates the commander list with a wide margin over second place, but 479 unique contributing players confirms this is not a single-deck artifact. Life-gain and white-tempo commanders cluster at the top consistently.

Frequently Asked

How often is Authority of the Consuls drawn in a Commander game?

In 998 tracked multiplayer games where Authority of the Consuls was in the deck, it was drawn 24% of the time. That is consistent with what you would expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 254 instances that reached a player's hand, 87% were cast before the game ended.

What turn does Authority of the Consuls typically land?

The median first-cast turn is 4.5, but the distribution tells the more interesting story. Turn 1 is the single most common cast turn by a wide margin, reflecting how often this card shows up in opening hands and gets slammed immediately. The interquartile range stretches from turn 1 to turn 7, meaning late draws still see play. The 69% same-turn cast rate confirms players rarely sit on this card once they draw it.

Does casting Authority of the Consuls actually improve your win rate?

The cast-vs-library win-rate delta is a directional early signal. Participations where the card resolved show a 27% win rate versus 20% in participations where it stayed in the library. That gap is modest and the confidence interval on the difference crosses zero at the lower bound, so treat it as a positive directional trend rather than a proven edge. Both sample sizes are healthy enough to note the direction, but Playgroup Live's dataset is still growing.

How sticky is Authority of the Consuls once it resolves?

66% of resolved copies are still on the battlefield at end of game. Enchantment removal is less common than artifact removal in most Commander metas, and a 1-mana investment that survives to end of game is strong value. The final-zone distribution shows exile and graveyard exits are real but infrequent relative to how often the card stays in play.

Which commanders most commonly run Authority of the Consuls?

On Playgroup Live, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads the list by a significant margin, followed by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Giada, Font of Hope. That clustering around life-gain and white-heavy commanders is intuitive: Authority of the Consuls slows down creature-based threats while padding your life total, synergizing directly with commanders that care about life gained or life totals. The 479 unique players contributing data suggests this is a broad community preference rather than one deck's outsized influence.

Is Authority of the Consuls legal in Commander and other formats?

Authority of the Consuls is legal in Commander, as well as Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Alchemy, Historic, Timeless, Brawl, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Pauper or Pauper Commander due to its rare printing. It has no bans in any format where it is currently legal.