Live Play Data

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2104

Decks Running

858

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=421

10%

63%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 57% (78 / 421 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2104 brought · 731 players

Brought to game

2104

Ever drawn

583

Reached battlefield

396

Still on board at game end

219

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=361) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1275).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=156).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval +15.9pp to +26.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

634 instances

4.1%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 34 decks
2 Kudo, King Among Bears 34 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 27 decks
4 Jace, Multiverse Architect 26 decks
5 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 23 decks
6 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 22 decks
7 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 21 decks
8 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 21 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 20 decks
10 Helga, Skittish Seer 18 decks

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

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.