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Emrakul's Messenger

· Creature — Eldrazi Faerie Rogue · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

320

Decks Running

156

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

Emrakul's Messenger

Creature — Eldrazi Faerie Rogue

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}

2 / 1

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Álvarez

Final zone distribution

76 instances

35.5%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

21.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bard, King of Dale 13 decks
2 Marneus Calgar 13 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 13 decks
4 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 11 decks
5 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 10 decks
6 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 6 decks
7 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 5 decks
8 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 4 decks
9 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 3 decks
10 Loki, Lord of Misrule 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

320 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

320

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=37) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=192).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=19).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

13%

11%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 22% (4 / 46 cast on T2) 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.