Live Play Data

Elspeth Conquers Death

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

150

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

13%

57%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 22% (7 / 54 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=51) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=27).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

94 instances

2.1%

Library

25.5%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 50 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 11 decks
3 Narci, Fable Singer 8 decks
4 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 7 decks
5 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 5 decks
6 Yuna, Hope of Spira 4 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 3 decks
8 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 3 decks
9 Mog, Moogle Warrior 3 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks

Card text

Elspeth Conquers Death

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater. II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost {2}

more to cast until your next turn. III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Yee

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.