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
912
Decks Running
450
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
First-cast turn
n=181
1%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
8%
T4
9%
T5
62%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median
7
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
17
On curve
59%
(31 / 181 cast on T7)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
The "good card" funnel
912 brought · 398 playersBrought to game
912
Ever drawn
249
Reached battlefield
167
Still on board at game end
91
Once cast, 54% 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.
≥ +14.8pp
Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=153) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=546).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=71).
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 +22.5pp; 95% confidence interval +14.8pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
269 instances3.3%
Library
33.8%
Battlefield
27.5%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
20 decks
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2
Kudo, King Among Bears
17 decks
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3
Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
15 decks
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4
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
15 decks
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5
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
12 decks
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6
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
10 decks
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7
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
10 decks
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8
Helga, Skittish Seer
10 decks
-
9
Marneus Calgar
10 decks
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10
The Wandering Minstrel
10 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.