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Ephemerate

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

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Times Brought

1158

Decks Running

575

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

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

Final zone distribution

246 instances

2.8%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

20.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 66 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 26 decks
3 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 23 decks
4 Niko, Light of Hope 15 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 13 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 13 decks
7 Thanos, the Mad Titan 13 decks
8 Arthur, Marigold Knight 12 decks
9 Ashling, the Limitless 12 decks
10 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1161 brought · 509 players

Brought to game

1161

Ever drawn

228

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=90) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=677).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=77).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=124

17%

58%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 29

On curve 3% (4 / 124 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.