Live Play Data

Emerald Medallion

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

715

Decks Running

383

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

77% of drawn Emerald Medallions are cast before the game ends, and 81% of those resolve and stay on the battlefield, making it one of the stickier two-drop artifacts in green Commander.

Emerald Medallion shows up in 383 of the 17176 decks tracked on Playgroup Live, a focused inclusion rate that reflects its hard restriction to green-spell-heavy builds. When it reaches a player's hand, 77% of copies get cast before the game concludes.

The median first-cast turn is 4.0, consistent with players dropping it early as a cost-reducer rather than a late-game play. Notably, 41% of casts land exactly on curve, a figure pulled down by the many copies drawn after the opening hand rather than any tendency to hold it. Of drawn copies that were also cast, 55% were played the same turn they were drawn, signaling that players treat it as an immediate priority.

The commander distribution is notably spread: 324 distinct players have brought Emerald Medallion to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than a small fraction of the dataset. The top commanders are almost entirely mono-green, which matches the card's color-identity constraint exactly.

At a glance

2% of tracked Commander decks include Emerald Medallion
77% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
T4.0 median first-cast turn
81% battlefield stickiness once cast
41% of casts land exactly on curve for this 2-mana artifact
324 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, a well-spread sample

First-cast turn

n=134

14%

27%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 41% (36 / 134 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 55%

The "good card" funnel

715 brought · 324 players

Brought to game

715

Ever drawn

173

Reached battlefield

134

Still on board at game end

109

77%

Of 715 Emerald Medallions brought to games, 173 were drawn, 134 of those were cast, and 81% of cast copies stayed on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=122) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=448).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=27) — 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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

191 instances

2.1%

Library

57.1%

Battlefield

20.4%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Most copies of Emerald Medallion that never leave the library simply weren't drawn in time, a structural reality of 100-card singleton rather than any signal about the card's power level.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander list is nearly all mono-green or green-primary, a direct consequence of Emerald Medallion's color restriction, and spread across many different archetypes rather than dominated by one build.

Card text

Emerald Medallion

Artifact

Green spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

Frequently Asked

How often is Emerald Medallion drawn in a Commander game?

Across 692 tracked multiplayer games where the card was in a deck, it was drawn 24% of the time. That is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 173 drawn instances, 77% were cast before the game ended. The remainder is largely a game-length effect: copies drawn late in a finished game have no opportunity to resolve.

What turn does Emerald Medallion typically hit the battlefield?

The median first-cast turn is 4.0, with the distribution clustering early: a meaningful share of casts happen on turns 1 and 2, drawn in the opening hand. The p75 sits at turn 6, so the long tail reflects copies found mid-game rather than held by choice. The mode of the distribution is turn 2, exactly on curve for a 2-mana card.

Does casting Emerald Medallion correlate with winning?

In 122 tracked participations where the card was cast, the normalized win rate is 28%, compared to 24% in 448 participations where it stayed in the library. The delta is +4.1 percentage points. Both buckets have enough observations to be directional, but the confidence interval crosses zero, so treat this as an early signal rather than a confirmed edge.

Is Emerald Medallion banned anywhere?

Emerald Medallion is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Duel Commander, Brawl, and several other formats. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. There is no Commander-specific ban or restriction. Its color identity is colorless, so it can slot into any Commander deck, though its effect only benefits green spells.

Which commanders most commonly run Emerald Medallion?

The top commanders in the tracked dataset are almost entirely mono-green or green-primary, led by The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ghalta Primal Hunger, and Tifa Lockhart. This is expected: Emerald Medallion has colorless identity and can technically appear in any deck, but its discount is only relevant in builds casting a high volume of green spells.

How concentrated is the Emerald Medallion data among players?

The dataset is well-spread. 324 distinct players have brought Emerald Medallion to a Playgroup Live game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 5% of all tracked instances. That breadth adds confidence to the directional trends shown here, even though the overall sample size remains modest.