Live Play Data

Champion of the Path

· Creature — Elemental Sorcerer · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

379

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=82

11%

13%

50%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 23% (9 / 82 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

379 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

379

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=72) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=216).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (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 +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.0pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

122 instances

1.6%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

36.9%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ashling, the Limitless 89 decks
2 Mass of Mysteries 6 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 5 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of Rage 4 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of the Roil 4 decks
6 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 3 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks
8 Omnath, Locus of Creation 2 decks
9 Valduk, Keeper of the Flame 2 decks
10 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks

Card text

Champion of the Path

Creature — Elemental Sorcerer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold an Elemental and exile it. (Exile an Elemental you control or an Elemental card from your hand.) Whenever another Elemental you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

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Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Rare · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole

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.