Live Play Data

Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

493

Decks Running

225

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

11%

14%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 29% (12 / 83 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

493 brought · 204 players

Brought to game

493

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=76) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=297).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=53).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

156 instances

5.8%

Library

30.1%

Battlefield

24.4%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Emeritus of Ideation

Creature — Human Wizard

Flying, ward {2}

This creature enters prepared. Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile eight cards from your graveyard. If you do, this creature becomes prepared.

5 / 5

Ancestral Recall

Instant

Target player draws three cards.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Evyn Fong

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.