Live Play Data

Boseiju, Who Endures

Legendary Land · Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO)

17%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1683

Decks Running

860

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

17% of tracked Commander decks run Boseiju, Who Endures. When drawn, 74% of copies are channeled or played before the game ends, with a median first activation landing on turn 5.

Boseiju, Who Endures appears in 17% of the 5105 Commander decks that have logged a tracked game on Playgroup Live. That figure reflects live play data, not decklist scrapes, and it spans 860 distinct decks across 1380 tracked multiplayer games.

The card's dual identity as a land and a Channel spell makes it uniquely hard to strand. 74% of drawn copies reach activation before the game concludes. Players hold it an average of 1.36 turns before channeling, with a median of 1 turn, suggesting it lands in hand mid-game rather than as an opening-hand slam. Win rate when cast sits at 33% against a normalized 25% baseline, a +5.8 percentage-point lift over participations where it stayed in the library. That delta is directional given sample sizes, but the lower bound of the confidence interval is positive, an early signal that activating it matters.

The commander spread is broad. 569 distinct players have brought Boseiju to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 3% of all instances, a well-distributed dataset. Green-inclusive commanders dominate the top slots, led by five-color shells that can run Boseiju alongside heavy legendary creature counts to reduce the Channel cost.

At a glance

17% of tracked Commander decks include Boseiju, Who Endures
74% of drawn copies are cast or channeled before the game ends
T5 median first activation turn across observed games
33% win rate in participations where Boseiju was activated
569 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, a healthy spread
65% battlefield stickiness when it resolves as a land or channel effect

First-cast turn

n=329

12%

15%

10%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

1688 brought · 569 players

Brought to game

1688

Ever drawn

445

Reached battlefield

329

Still on board at game end

213

74%

Of 1688 copies brought to tracked games, 445 were drawn, 329 of those were activated, making the draw-to-activation conversion one of the higher rates among green utility lands in the dataset.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=317) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1097).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=109) — 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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

490 instances

3.7%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Most Boseiju copies finish on the battlefield as a Forest or in the graveyard after channeling. The library bucket is unusually small compared to typical singletons, reflecting how rarely the card stays fully dormant in a 100-card deck.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The top commander list spans five-color shells, mono-green builds, and Naya strategies, confirming that Boseiju is not a tribal or archetype-specific inclusion but a broadly adopted utility land across green-inclusive pods.

Frequently Asked

How often is Boseiju drawn in a Commander game?

Across 1380 tracked multiplayer games, Boseiju was drawn 26% of the time when it was in the deck. That is consistent with what you expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 445 copies that reached a hand, 74% were activated before the game ended, putting it well above average for lands with situational utility.

What turn does Boseiju typically get activated?

The median first activation lands on turn 5, with the 25th percentile at turn 3 and the 75th percentile at turn 7. The mode of the distribution is turn 3, reflecting games where players hold it briefly and deploy it into early interaction windows. A long tail extends to turn 15, covering late-game removal of problem enchantments or nonbasic lands.

Does activating Boseiju actually improve your win rate?

In participations where Boseiju was activated, the win rate is 33% against a normalized 4-player baseline of 25%. Participations where it stayed in the library show 27%. The +5.8 percentage-point delta is directional. The lower bound of the confidence interval is positive at current sample sizes, so there is an early signal, but we would want more observations before calling it definitive.

Is Boseiju legal in all Commander formats?

Boseiju, Who Endures is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and Gladiator. It is not legal in Standard, Pauper, Pauper Commander, or Premodern. No Commander variant has it on a ban list as of this writing.

Why does Boseiju see play across so many different commanders?

Two reasons. First, it enters the battlefield untapped as a Forest, so it costs nothing to include as a land slot. Second, the Channel ability hits artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands, which covers three of the most common permanent types that Commander decks want to answer. Running legendary creatures reduces the Channel cost further, making it free in pods with multiple legends in play. The result is broad adoption across green-inclusive strategies regardless of theme.

How concentrated is the Boseiju data, and should I trust it?

The multiplayer dataset spans 569 distinct players. The single largest contributor accounts for 3% of all tracked instances, well below the 15% threshold that would flag concentration concerns. With 329 activations observed across 1380 games, the core cast metrics are based on a solid sample. Win-rate deltas are directional rather than conclusive, as noted elsewhere on this page.