Live Play Data
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
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Iconic Masters (IMA)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1435
Decks Running
640
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
68%
Format
First-cast turn
n=290
0%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
8%
T4
9%
T5
61%
T6-9
18%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
17
On curve
56%
(53 / 290 cast on T7)
Cast same turn as drawn
39%
The "good card" funnel
1435 brought · 556 playersBrought to game
1435
Ever drawn
395
Reached battlefield
269
Still on board at game end
149
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.
≥ +15.5pp
Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=244) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=869).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=108).
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 +21.7pp; 95% confidence interval +15.5pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
426 instances4.5%
Library
35.0%
Battlefield
25.4%
Graveyard
8.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Kudo, King Among Bears
27 decks
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2
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
26 decks
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3
Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
18 decks
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4
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
18 decks
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5
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
16 decks
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6
Helga, Skittish Seer
16 decks
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7
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
15 decks
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8
Darien, King of Kjeldor
14 decks
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9
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
13 decks
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10
Jace, Multiverse Architect
12 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.
4 / 7
Iconic Masters (IMA)
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Mythic
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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 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.