Live Play Data

Binding the Old Gods

· Enchantment — Saga · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1524

Decks Running

787

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=260

12%

13%

57%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 13% (30 / 260 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1524 brought · 703 players

Brought to game

1524

Ever drawn

375

Reached battlefield

260

Still on board at game end

107

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=228) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=932).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=109).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

425 instances

4.5%

Library

25.2%

Battlefield

42.1%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 124 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 120 decks
3 Tom Bombadil 111 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 74 decks
5 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 33 decks
6 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 30 decks
7 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 26 decks
8 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 24 decks
9 Narci, Fable Singer 22 decks
10 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 22 decks

Card text

Binding the Old Gods

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

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.