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Binding the Old Gods

· Enchantment — Saga · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

397

Decks Running

205

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

98 instances

22.4%

Battlefield

46.9%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

23.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 42 decks
2 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 27 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 21 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 17 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 13 decks
6 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 10 decks
7 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 9 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 7 decks
9 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 5 decks
10 The Reaper, King No More 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

397 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

397

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=45) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=238).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21) — 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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=62

10%

58%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 23% (5 / 62 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

62 of 100 times cast 62%

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.