Live Play Data

Exemplar of Light

· Creature — Angel · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

877

Decks Running

436

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=148

17%

18%

38%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 28% (25 / 148 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

878 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

878

Ever drawn

220

Reached battlefield

148

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=138) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=559).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=63).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

247 instances

4.9%

Library

31.2%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Exemplar of Light

Creature — Angel

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.