Live Play Data

Elves of Deep Shadow

· Creature — Elf Druid · Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari (DDJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1080

Decks Running

561

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=177

31%

15%

10%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 31% (55 / 177 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

1080 brought · 503 players

Brought to game

1080

Ever drawn

248

Reached battlefield

177

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=155) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=668).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=61).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances

2.7%

Library

31.3%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 55 decks
2 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 53 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 44 decks
4 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 37 decks
5 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 20 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 19 decks
7 High Perfect Morcant 18 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 17 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 15 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 13 decks

Card text

Elves of Deep Shadow

Creature — Elf Druid

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Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari (DDJ) · Common · Illustrated by Justin Sweet

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.