Live Play Data

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

· Legendary Creature — Human Knight · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

646

Decks Running

295

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

75% of drawn Danitha Capashen, Paragon copies are cast before the game ends, with a median first-cast turn of 5.0 across 625 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live.

Danitha Capashen, Paragon sits in 3% of the 9242 tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live. That is a focused niche: she slots naturally into Aura and Equipment strategies, and the data reflects exactly that concentration of purpose.

When Danitha reaches a player's hand, 75% of those copies are cast. Median first cast lands on turn 5.0, which is slightly later than her printed mana value of 3 would suggest. The gap is a typical signal that she is more often drawn mid-game than kept in the opening hand. Once she does resolve, 54% of casts survive through end of game, a meaningful stickiness figure for a three-mana creature in a format full of removal.

The commander distribution is healthy. 278 distinct players have brought Danitha to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than 3% of all instances. The data is well-spread, which makes the directional signals more trustworthy than a single-player spike would allow. Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER leads the top-commander list, reflecting Danitha's fit in Equipment-heavy Naya builds.

At a glance

3% of tracked Commander decks include Danitha
75% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
T5.0 median first-cast turn
54% battlefield stickiness once she resolves
278 distinct players have brought her to a tracked game
33% of casts land exactly on curve at turn 3

First-cast turn

n=112

24%

14%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (27 / 112 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

646 brought · 278 players

Brought to game

646

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

112

Still on board at game end

75%

Of 646 Danitha copies brought to multiplayer games, 150 were drawn, 112 of those were cast, and 54% of resolved copies remained on the battlefield at game end.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=105) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=416).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=30) — 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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

163 instances

2.5%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

36.2%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Most Danitha copies never leave the library, which is structurally expected in 100-card singleton. Of those that did resolve, the battlefield and graveyard are nearly tied as final zones, with removal being the primary way she exits play.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 50 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 16 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 12 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 12 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 10 decks
6 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 10 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 8 decks
8 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 8 decks
9 Ellivere of the Wild Court 7 decks
10 Killian, Decisive Mentor 7 decks

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER dominates by raw count, but the list spans mono-white, Naya, Orzhov, and Selesnya commanders, showing Danitha's Aura-and-Equipment cost reduction is valued across several archetypes rather than locked into one build.

Card text

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

Legendary Creature — Human Knight

First strike, vigilance, lifelink Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

2 / 2

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

Frequently Asked

How often is Danitha Capashen, Paragon drawn in a Commander game?

Across 625 tracked multiplayer games where Danitha was in the deck, she was drawn 23% of the time. That is consistent with what you would expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 150 copies that reached a hand, 75% were cast before the game ended. The remainder were mostly cases where the game concluded before the player found a window to cast her.

What turn does Danitha typically hit the battlefield?

Median first-cast turn is 5.0, with a mean around 5. The distribution runs from turn 1 to turn 12, but the bulk of casts cluster between turns 3 and 7. Only 33% of casts land exactly on turn 3, her printed mana value, which is partly a draw-timing effect: players who pick her up mid-game naturally cast her later than the curve would otherwise allow. 29% of drawn-and-cast instances were cast on the same turn she was drawn.

How sticky is Danitha once she resolves?

54% of Danitha casts end with her still on the battlefield at game end. That is a reasonable figure for a three-mana legendary creature in Commander, where targeted removal and board wipes are common. First strike and lifelink help her survive combat, but she remains a creature and is subject to all the usual threats. The graveyard is the most common non-battlefield final zone, consistent with removal being the primary exit route.

Which commanders pair with Danitha most often?

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER leads by raw deck count in the multiplayer dataset, reflecting Danitha's strong fit in Naya Equipment strategies. Mono-white commanders like Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer and Cloud, Midgar Mercenary also appear near the top, as do Aura-centric commanders like Eriette of the Charmed Apple and Ellivere of the Wild Court. The spread across color identities and archetypes confirms she is a cross-archetype piece rather than a one-deck specialist.

Is Danitha Capashen, Paragon legal in Commander?

Yes, Danitha Capashen, Paragon is legal in Commander with no restrictions. She is also legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and several other formats. She is not legal in Standard, Pauper, or Penny Dreadful.

Does casting Danitha actually improve win rate?

In the current dataset, games where Danitha was cast show a win rate of 28% versus 26% for games where she stayed in the library, a delta of +2.0 percentage points. Both buckets are large enough to be directional: 105 observations in the cast bucket and 416 in the library bucket. The confidence interval on the delta is wide enough that we call this an early signal rather than a firm conclusion, but the direction is consistently positive so far.