Live Play Data

Captain of the Watch

· Creature — Human Soldier · Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora (DDO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

349

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=70

11%

10%

57%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 47% (14 / 70 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

349 brought · 150 players

Brought to game

349

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=69) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=203).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=21).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.3pp to +32.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

107 instances

1.9%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 45 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 23 decks
3 Myrel, Shield of Argive 14 decks
4 Darien, King of Kjeldor 13 decks
5 Commander Mustard 6 decks
6 Commissar Severina Raine 4 decks
7 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 4 decks
8 Heidegger, Shinra Executive 3 decks
9 Baird, Argivian Recruiter 2 decks
10 Craig Boone, Novac Guard 2 decks

Card text

Captain of the Watch

Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. When this creature enters, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

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Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora (DDO) · Rare · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 subset of that corpus.