Live Play Data

Detective of the Month

· Creature — Human Detective · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

14%

60%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 11% (3 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=33) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=24).

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 -4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.3pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

1.6%

Library

23.8%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 23 decks
2 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 7 decks
3 Loki, Lord of Misrule 5 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
5 Piper Wright, Publick Reporter 3 decks
6 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar 3 decks
7 Bard, King of Dale 2 decks
8 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 2 decks
9 Kitsune, Dragon's Daughter 2 decks
10 Ms. Bumbleflower 2 decks

Card text

Detective of the Month

Creature — Human Detective

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Stella Spente

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.