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Ayara, First of Locthwain

· Legendary Creature — Elf Noble · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

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Times Brought

1801

Decks Running

863

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.

Card text

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

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Throne of Eldraine (ELD) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

Final zone distribution

383 instances

1.6%

Library

43.3%

Battlefield

29.0%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 202 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 105 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 70 decks
4 Rat King, Verminister 28 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 26 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 24 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 14 decks
8 Vren, the Relentless 14 decks
9 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 14 decks
10 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

1801 brought · 748 players

Brought to game

1801

Ever drawn

345

Reached battlefield

263

Still on board at game end

166

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=201) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1002).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=60).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=295

26%

14%

12%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 28% (76 / 295 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.