Live Play Data

Deliberate

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

287

Decks Running

130

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=70

16%

14%

13%

40%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 6% (4 / 70 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

287 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

287

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=65) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=166).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=16).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +23.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

4.9%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

69.6%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Denzilore Fatehold 36 decks
2 Elminster 16 decks
3 Lyse Hext 6 decks
4 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 4 decks
5 River Song 4 decks
6 Galadriel of Lothlórien 3 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 3 decks
8 Matoya, Archon Elder 3 decks
9 Neera, Wild Mage 3 decks
10 Queza, Augur of Agonies 3 decks

Card text

Deliberate

Instant

Scry 2, then draw a card.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Common · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.