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Elvish Piper

· Creature — Elf Shaman · Masters 25 (A25)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

220

Decks Running

101

In Decks

741

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Elvish Piper

Creature — Elf Shaman

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

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Masters 25 (A25) · Rare · Illustrated by Rebecca Guay

Final zone distribution

65 instances

4.6%

Library

36.9%

Battlefield

36.9%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Galadriel, Elven-Queen 14 decks
2 Thranduil, the Elvenking 5 decks
3 Voja, Jaws of the Conclave 5 decks
4 High Perfect Morcant 4 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
6 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 3 decks
7 Mayael the Anima 3 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 3 decks
9 Toph, Earthbending Master 3 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

220 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

220

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=35) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=20) — 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 +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

21%

34%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 26% (4 / 38 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.