Live Play Data

Distant Melody

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1540

Decks Running

738

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=167

13%

59%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 7% (5 / 167 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1542 brought · 649 players

Brought to game

1542

Ever drawn

357

Reached battlefield

167

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=152) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=963).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=163).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

422 instances

2.6%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

55.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Distant Melody

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Common · Illustrated by Warren Mahy

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.