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Authority of the Consuls

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

665

Decks Running

360

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Final zone distribution

173 instances

1.7%

Library

66.5%

Battlefield

20.2%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 65 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 23 decks
3 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 20 decks
4 Hope Estheim 9 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 6 decks
7 Edgar Markov 6 decks
8 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 6 decks
9 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 6 decks
10 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

667 brought · 333 players

Brought to game

667

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

144

Still on board at game end

115

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=122) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=398).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=15) — 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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +3.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=144

29%

14%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 29% (42 / 144 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 73%

908 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.