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Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt

· Creature — Human Wizard // Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

203

Decks Running

116

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

Emeritus of Conflict

Creature — Human Wizard

First strike Whenever you cast your third spell each turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

2 / 2

Lightning Bolt

Instant

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alix Branwyn

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

51.0%

Battlefield

17.6%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Ravenous Codex 25 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 13 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 11 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
5 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 4 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 4 decks
7 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 4 decks
8 Alania, Divergent Storm 3 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
10 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

203

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=130).

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 +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

11%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 16% (6 / 38 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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.