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Combat Research

· Enchantment — Aura · Dominaria United (DMU)

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Times Brought

130

Decks Running

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

Combat Research

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}

. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}

Dominaria United (DMU) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Justine Cruz

Final zone distribution

27 instances

51.9%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

14.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 9 decks
2 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 4 decks
3 Tatsunari, Toad Rider 4 decks
4 Charix, the Raging Isle 3 decks
5 Katara, the Fearless 3 decks
6 Zur the Enchanter 3 decks
7 Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury 2 decks
8 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
9 Duggan, Private Detective 2 decks
10 Human Torch 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

130 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

130

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=77).

Observed gap +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.1pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

17%

26%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.