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Detection Tower

Land · Core Set 2019 (M19)

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

140

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

Detection Tower

Land

: Add

: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Core Set 2019 (M19) · Rare · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

Final zone distribution

54 instances

63.0%

Battlefield

18.5%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

16.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ -20.0pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=31) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=157).

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 -11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -20.0pp to -2.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

11%

22%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.