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Emeria Shepherd

{5} {W} {W} · Creature — Angel · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)
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Times Brought
1272
Decks Running
597
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Emeria Shepherd card

Emeria Shepherd

{5} {W} {W}
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

Final zone distribution

241 instances
2.1%
Library
35.3%
Battlefield
12.0%
Graveyard
3.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1272 brought · 548 players
Brought to game
1272
Ever drawn
229
Reached battlefield
113
Still on board at game end
85

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=107) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=892).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=113
1%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
5%
T4
5%
T5
66%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20
On curve 48% (19 / 113 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.