Live Play Data

Cavalier of Night

· Creature — Elemental Knight · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

410

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

13%

14%

55%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 31% (9 / 64 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

410 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

410

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=60) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=34).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances

0.9%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

36.0%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cavalier of Night

Creature — Elemental Knight

Lifelink When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls. When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Core Set 2020 (M20) · Mythic · Illustrated by Viktor Titov

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.