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Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares

· Creature — Cat Cleric // Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

115

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 Truce

Creature — Cat Cleric

When this creature enters, target player creates a 1/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

3 / 3

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

Final zone distribution

35 instances

45.7%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

11.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Ravenous Codex 26 decks
2 Arahbo, Roar of the World 4 decks
3 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 4 decks
4 Fire Lord Zuko 3 decks
5 Ketramose, the New Dawn 3 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 3 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
8 Drana and Linvala 2 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 2 decks
10 Lorehold, the Historian 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -16.7pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=20) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=119).

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 -5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -16.7pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

22%

43%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 17% (3 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.