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Exemplar of Light

· Creature — Angel · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

1719

Decks Running

806

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

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

Final zone distribution

299 instances

0.7%

Library

49.2%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1723 brought · 700 players

Brought to game

1723

Ever drawn

278

Reached battlefield

211

Still on board at game end

147

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=153) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=984).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=47).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=211

19%

13%

45%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 27% (41 / 211 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.