Live Play Data

Ephemerate

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3881

Decks Running

1642

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=606

16%

60%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 1% (4 / 606 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

3882 brought · 1299 players

Brought to game

3882

Ever drawn

945

Reached battlefield

606

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=584) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2590).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=324).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1050 instances

5.2%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

21.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 121 decks
2 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 107 decks
3 Brago, King Eternal 54 decks
4 Niko, Light of Hope 40 decks
5 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 37 decks
6 Mister Negative 34 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 32 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 30 decks
9 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 30 decks
10 Reaper King 27 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.