Live Play Data

Emeria Shepherd

· Creature — Angel · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1413

Decks Running

631

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=158

65%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 43% (21 / 158 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1413 brought · 572 players

Brought to game

1413

Ever drawn

290

Reached battlefield

158

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=140) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=929).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=104).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

314 instances

1.9%

Library

32.2%

Battlefield

21.7%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 333 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 22 decks
3 Gisela, the Broken Blade 18 decks
4 Karametra, God of Harvests 18 decks
5 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 18 decks
6 Bruna, the Fading Light 16 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of Creation 15 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 14 decks
9 Seluma, Light of Aysen 14 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 13 decks

Card text

Emeria Shepherd

Creature — Angel

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that land is a Plains, you may return that nonland permanent card to the battlefield instead.

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Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cynthia Sheppard

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.