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Captain of the Watch

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

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Times Brought

406

Decks Running

210

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

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

76 instances

3.9%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

18.4%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 77 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 34 decks
3 Myrel, Shield of Argive 18 decks
4 Commander Mustard 12 decks
5 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
6 Harbin, Vanguard Aviator 4 decks
7 Commissar Severina Raine 3 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks
9 Trynn, Champion of Freedom 3 decks
10 Belladonna Took 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

406 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

406

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=29) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=16).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -7.1pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

13%

60%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 42% (7 / 45 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.