Live Play Data

Eladamri's Call

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

684

Decks Running

318

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Eladamri's Call lands in 8% of tracked Commander decks and is cast a median turn 5, with 64% of drawn copies reaching the stack before the game ends.

Eladamri's Call is the format's go-to creature tutor for Green-White strategies. Across 649 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live, it appears in 318 of 3756 distinct decks, a 8% inclusion rate that reflects how broadly creature-centric the format remains.

As an instant, it resolves and goes straight to the graveyard, so the key question is simply: when do players find it and pull the trigger? The median first cast lands on turn 5, with a wide spread from turn 1 through turn 11. Of 157 drawn copies, 64% were cast before the game concluded. The remaining copies mostly reflect games that ended while the card was still in hand, not players choosing to sit on it. The hand-to-cast data reinforces this: the median delay between drawing and casting is 1 turn, and 44% of cast copies were played on the same turn they were drawn.

The commander spread is notably wide. 272 distinct players have brought Eladamri's Call to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 5% of all instances, a healthy distribution that gives the numbers real breadth. The top commanders are a mix of five-color tribal piles and focused Green-White creature strategies, consistent with a card that rewards dense creature counts regardless of archetype.

At a glance

8% of tracked Commander decks include Eladamri's Call
23% draw rate, expected for a singleton in a 100-card deck
64% of drawn copies were cast before the game ended
T5 median first-cast turn across tracked games
44% of cast copies played on the same turn they were drawn
272 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game

First-cast turn

n=101

14%

10%

20%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 21% (14 / 101 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

684 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

684

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

64%

Of 684 copies brought to games, 157 were drawn, 101 of those were cast, and nearly all resolved cleanly to the graveyard as the instant found its target.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=94) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=467).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=52) — 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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

171 instances

5.3%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

62.6%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Eladamri's Call is an instant that resolves to the graveyard, so the library share of final zones largely reflects copies that were never drawn in a 100-card singleton deck, not copies that were cast and returned.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 15 decks
2 Baylen, the Haymaker 12 decks
3 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 11 decks
4 The First Sliver 11 decks
5 Voja, Jaws of the Conclave 9 decks
6 Aragorn, the Uniter 7 decks
7 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 7 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 7 decks
9 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 7 decks
10 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 7 decks

The top-commander list spans tribal five-color piles and focused Green-White creature strategies, showing that Eladamri's Call earns its slot wherever creature density is high and finding one specific creature matters.

Card text

Eladamri's Call

Instant

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Kev Walker

Frequently Asked

How often is Eladamri's Call drawn in a Commander game?

In 649 tracked multiplayer games where the card was in the deck, it was drawn 23% of the time. That is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 157 instances that reached a player's hand, 64% were cast before the game ended. The median delay between drawing and casting is 1 turn, and 44% of casters played it immediately.

What turn does Eladamri's Call usually get cast?

Median first-cast turn is 5, with the 25th percentile at turn 3 and the 75th percentile at turn 7. The distribution shows a cluster of early casts in turns 1-3 (likely opening-hand draws) and the bulk of casts concentrated around turns 5-7. Being cast behind curve is common: 21% of casts landed exactly on the card's 2-mana curve turn, with most instances drawn too late for that to be possible rather than players deliberately holding it.

Does casting Eladamri's Call actually help you win?

In 94 participations where the card was cast, the normalized win rate was 30%. In 467 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate was 26%. The delta is +3.9 percentage points. Both sample buckets are reasonably sized, but the standard error on this delta is meaningful at this scale, so treat it as an early directional signal rather than a firm conclusion.

Is Eladamri's Call legal in Commander?

Yes. Eladamri's Call is legal and unrestricted in Commander (including duel Commander), Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, and several other formats. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Alchemy. Its {G}{W} color identity restricts it to decks whose commanders include both Green and White.

Which commanders most often run Eladamri's Call?

On Playgroup Live, the most common shells are creature-dense tribal or go-wide strategies: Rin and Seri, Inseparable leads the list, followed by Baylen, the Haymaker and Avatar Aang. Five-color commanders like The First Sliver, Najeela, and Kenrith also appear prominently. The pattern is consistent: commanders that want to find a specific creature reliably, regardless of color, as long as Green and White are present.

How concentrated is the data for Eladamri's Call?

The data is well-spread. 272 distinct players have brought the card to a tracked game, and the single largest contributor accounts for only 5% of all instances. That breadth strengthens confidence in the directional signals here. It is not a card whose numbers are dominated by one player's repeated games.