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Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

554

Decks Running

307

In Decks

1879

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

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Iconic Masters (IMA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Final zone distribution

168 instances

2.4%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 12 decks
2 Kudo, King Among Bears 12 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 10 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 9 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 9 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
7 Helga, Skittish Seer 8 decks
8 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 7 decks
9 The Wandering Minstrel 7 decks
10 Myrel, Shield of Argive 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

554 brought · 275 players

Brought to game

554

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=86) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=323).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=42) — 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 +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.4pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=95

60%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 57% (14 / 95 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

95 of 100 times cast 95%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.