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Emeria Shepherd

· Creature — Angel · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

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Times Brought

523

Decks Running

239

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

91 instances

3.3%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

12.1%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 112 decks
2 Bruna, the Fading Light 16 decks
3 Gisela, the Broken Blade 11 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 7 decks
6 Sigarda, Font of Blessings 7 decks
7 Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor 6 decks
8 Omnath, Locus of Creation 6 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 5 decks
10 Karametra, God of Harvests 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

523 brought · 223 players

Brought to game

523

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=31) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=36).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

68%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 45% (6 / 40 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.