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Birds of Paradise

· Creature — Bird · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

6137

Decks Running

3009

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

Birds of Paradise

Creature — Bird

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

0 / 1

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Kevin Sidharta

Final zone distribution

1462 instances

2.6%

Library

51.1%

Battlefield

27.6%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 139 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 109 decks
3 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 52 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 50 decks
5 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 45 decks
6 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 43 decks
7 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 42 decks
8 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 40 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 35 decks
10 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 34 decks

The "good card" funnel

6143 brought · 1869 players

Brought to game

6143

Ever drawn

1340

Reached battlefield

1121

Still on board at game end

747

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=859) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=3473).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=173).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1121

37%

12%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 20

On curve 37% (419 / 1121 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 76%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.