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Elspeth, Sun's Champion

· Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

305

Decks Running

179

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

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. −3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. −7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Loyalty 4

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

Final zone distribution

58 instances

3.4%

Library

36.2%

Battlefield

19.0%

Graveyard

41.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 28 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 11 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 10 decks
4 Commodore Guff 8 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 7 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 5 decks
8 Darien, King of Kjeldor 5 decks
9 Myrel, Shield of Argive 4 decks
10 The Thing 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

306 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

306

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=19) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

23%

55%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 42% (4 / 31 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.