Live Play Data

Chancellor of the Annex

· Creature — Phyrexian Angel · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

187

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

15%

41%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 59% (3 / 27 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

187 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

187

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=26) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=126).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +29.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances

14.0%

Library

25.6%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 11 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 7 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 6 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 5 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 3 decks
7 Zur the Enchanter 3 decks
8 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 2 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 2 decks
10 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 2 decks

Card text

Chancellor of the Annex

Creature — Phyrexian Angel

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, when each opponent casts their first spell of the game, counter that spell unless that player pays {1}

. Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays {1}

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New Phyrexia (NPH) · Rare · Illustrated by Min Yum

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.