Live Play Data

Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard // Legendary Creature — Avatar · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

120

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

30%

11%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 32% (11 / 37 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

120 brought · 56 players

Brought to game

120

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.

≥ -19.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=21) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=72).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -19.6pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

35 instances

42.9%

Battlefield

14.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

37.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
3 Indominus Rex, Alpha 5 decks
4 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
5 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat 2 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
7 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 2 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
9 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator 2 decks
10 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 2 decks

Card text

Emet-Selch, Unsundered

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard

Vigilance Whenever Emet-Selch enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fourteen or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Emet-Selch.

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Hades, Sorcerer of Eld

Legendary Creature — Avatar

Vigilance Echo of the Lost — During your turn, you may play cards from your graveyard. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.