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Captain of the Watch

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

167

Decks Running

In Decks

576

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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.

3 / 3

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

3.6%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

30.9%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 28 decks
2 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 8 decks
4 Commander Mustard 5 decks
5 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 3 decks
6 Myrel, Shield of Argive 3 decks
7 Commissar Severina Raine 2 decks
8 Craig Boone, Novac Guard 2 decks
9 Heidegger, Shinra Executive 2 decks
10 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

167

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=32) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=91).

Observed gap +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

64%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 39% (7 / 33 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.