Live Play Data

Ephemerate

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2131

Decks Running

1001

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=336

13%

15%

60%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 1% (2 / 336 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

2132 brought · 825 players

Brought to game

2132

Ever drawn

524

Reached battlefield

336

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=310) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1317).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=172).

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 +2.7pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

587 instances

3.2%

Library

5.8%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

21.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 81 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 36 decks
3 Niko, Light of Hope 30 decks
4 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 25 decks
5 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 24 decks
6 Mister Negative 23 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 22 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 20 decks
9 Thanos, the Mad Titan 19 decks
10 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 18 decks

Card text

Ephemerate

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Common · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.