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Live Play Data

Axebane Guardian

{2} {G} · Creature — Human Druid · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
329
Decks Running
176
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
84%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71
0%
T1
11%
T2
13%
T3
13%
T4
10%
T5
38%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16
On curve 24% (9 / 71 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

329 brought · 171 players
Brought to game
329
Ever drawn
85
Reached battlefield
71
Still on board at game end
36

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=65) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=202).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

89 instances
40.4%
Battlefield
37.1%
Graveyard
9.0%
Exile
13.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Axebane Guardian card

Axebane Guardian

{2} {G}
Creature — Human Druid
Defender {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.