Live Play Data

Enduring Vitality

· Enchantment Creature — Elk Glimmer · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

909

Decks Running

450

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

5% of tracked Commander decks run Enduring Vitality, and 72% of drawn copies reach the battlefield, with a median first-cast turn of 5.

Enduring Vitality sits in 5% of the 8517 Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live, appearing across 450 distinct lists. Its draw-to-play rate of 72% is the early signal that players treat it as a high-priority deployment once it arrives in hand.

The card's appeal is mechanical. As an Enchantment Creature, it enters as a mana-producing body with vigilance, and if it dies as a creature it returns to the battlefield as a pure enchantment, still granting every creature you control a rainbow tap ability. That resilience shows up in the data: 79% of cast copies remain on the battlefield at end of game. The data is spread across 398 distinct players, with no single contributor exceeding 3% of all tracked instances, which gives the numbers reasonable breadth for an early-read dataset.

The top commanders pairing with Enduring Vitality skew heavily green and token-focused. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl leads by a wide margin, followed by Witherbloom, the Balancer and Baylen, the Haymaker. That pattern is consistent with what the card does: it multiplies the mana output of wide boards, making it a natural fit for token strategies that want to convert creature count into acceleration.

At a glance

5% of tracked Commander decks include Enduring Vitality
72% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
T5 median first-cast turn
79% battlefield stickiness once resolved
398 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
40% normalized win rate in games where Enduring Vitality was cast

First-cast turn

n=163

17%

12%

20%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 29% (28 / 163 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

909 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

909

Ever drawn

226

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

129

72%

Of 909 copies brought to games, 226 were drawn, 163 of those were cast, and 79% of resolved copies remained on the battlefield at end of game.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=148) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=584).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=56) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

249 instances

1.6%

Library

51.8%

Battlefield

15.3%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Most tracked copies end the game on the battlefield or in hand, a reflection of Enduring Vitality's resilience: it returns from the graveyard as an enchantment rather than staying dead, so graveyard finishes are rarer than for typical creatures.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl dominates the top-commander list by a wide margin, and the broader spread across green token and creature-wide commanders confirms that Enduring Vitality's mana-multiplication effect rewards wide boards above all else.

Card text

Enduring Vitality

Enchantment Creature — Elk Glimmer

Vigilance Creatures you control have " {T}

: Add one mana of any color." When Enduring Vitality dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Rare · Illustrated by Valera Lutfullina

Frequently Asked

How often is Enduring Vitality drawn in a Commander game?

Across 861 tracked games where Enduring Vitality was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That is roughly in line with what you would expect from a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 226 instances that reached a hand, 72% were cast before the game ended. The remainder is largely a game-length effect: copies drawn late may never find a window to resolve.

What turn does Enduring Vitality typically hit the battlefield?

The median first-cast turn is 5, with the interquartile range falling between turns 3 and 7. The distribution clusters around turns 2 through 5, consistent with opening-hand finds and early ramp enabling a slightly ahead-of-rate cast. A tail of late casts stretches as far as turn 16, pulling the mean above the median.

Does casting Enduring Vitality actually improve your win chances?

In 148 participations where Enduring Vitality was cast, the normalized win rate was 40%. In 584 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate was 33%. The delta of +7.2 percentage points is a directional positive signal. The lower bound of the confidence interval crosses zero, so treat this as an early read rather than a settled conclusion.

Is Enduring Vitality legal in Commander?

Yes. Enduring Vitality is legal in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Historic, and several other formats. It is not legal in Pauper or Pauper Commander, which is consistent with its rare printing in Duskmourn: House of Horror.

Why does Enduring Vitality see play in token and creature-wide decks?

The oracle text grants every creature you control a tap ability that adds one mana of any color. In a wide board state, that can represent several mana each turn cycle before combat. Vigilance on the creature itself means Enduring Vitality can tap for mana and still attack or hold back. When it dies as a creature, it returns as an enchantment, preserving the mana-grant ability on your remaining board. That combination of resilience and multiplicative value is what makes it a natural fit for token commanders like The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

How concentrated is the Enduring Vitality data across players?

398 distinct players have brought Enduring Vitality to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 3% of all instances. That spread is a strength of this dataset: the numbers are not skewed by one or two prolific players, so the draw and cast patterns reflect a reasonably broad sample of play behavior.