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Binding the Old Gods

· Enchantment — Saga · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

1028

Decks Running

547

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

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

Final zone distribution

247 instances

1.6%

Library

23.5%

Battlefield

44.5%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 95 decks
2 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 74 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 71 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 59 decks
5 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 33 decks
6 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 24 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
8 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 19 decks
9 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 13 decks
10 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1028 brought · 495 players

Brought to game

1028

Ever drawn

222

Reached battlefield

156

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=109) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=560).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=44).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +7.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=156

12%

10%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 24% (19 / 156 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.