Live Play Data

Captain of the Watch

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

535

Decks Running

230

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100

11%

12%

58%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 47% (19 / 100 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

535 brought · 225 players

Brought to game

535

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=98) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=319).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=37).

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 +20.5pp; 95% confidence interval +10.6pp to +30.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

158 instances

1.3%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 76 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 32 decks
3 Darien, King of Kjeldor 21 decks
4 Myrel, Shield of Argive 21 decks
5 Commander Mustard 11 decks
6 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 5 decks
7 Commissar Severina Raine 4 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 3 decks
9 Heidegger, Shinra Executive 3 decks
10 Baird, Argivian Recruiter 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.