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Elspeth Conquers Death

· Enchantment — Saga · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

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Times Brought

205

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

44 instances

2.3%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

43.2%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 35 decks
2 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 7 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 6 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 5 decks
5 Narci, Fable Singer 4 decks
6 Yuna, Hope of Spira 4 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 3 decks
8 Mog, Moogle Warrior 3 decks
9 Ghen, Arcanum Weaver 2 decks
10 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

205 brought · 93 players

Brought to game

205

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=24) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=135).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

35%

38%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 50% (9 / 26 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.