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Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

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

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Times Brought

521

Decks Running

283

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

123 instances

1.6%

Library

43.9%

Battlefield

15.4%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 14 decks
2 Kudo, King Among Bears 12 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 11 decks
4 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 7 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 7 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 7 decks
7 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 7 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 7 decks
9 Myrel, Shield of Argive 6 decks
10 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

521 brought · 259 players

Brought to game

521

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=69) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=319).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=26).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

14%

67%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 60% (19 / 86 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.