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Combat Calligrapher

{3} {W} · Creature — Bird Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
194
Decks Running
115
In Decks
720
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Combat Calligrapher card

Combat Calligrapher

{3} {W}
Creature — Bird Cleric
Flying Inklings can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying that's attacking that opponent.
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Joseph Weston

Final zone distribution

64 instances
3.1%
Library
18.8%
Battlefield
37.5%
Graveyard
4.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 110 players
Brought to game
194
Ever drawn
60
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
12

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=28) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=29) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +17.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +37.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31
0%
T1
10%
T2
10%
T3
16%
T4
10%
T5
39%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 12
On curve 35% (5 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%
31 of 100 times cast 31%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.