Live Play Data

Elves of Deep Shadow

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1873

Decks Running

889

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=330

25%

15%

10%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 25% (84 / 330 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

1873 brought · 769 players

Brought to game

1873

Ever drawn

454

Reached battlefield

330

Still on board at game end

159

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=295) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=111).

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 +0.7pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

536 instances

3.4%

Library

29.7%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 84 decks
2 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 78 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 68 decks
4 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 55 decks
5 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 39 decks
6 High Perfect Morcant 33 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 28 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 26 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 25 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 21 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.