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Felidar Guardian

· Creature — Cat Beast · Aether Revolt (AER)

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Times Brought

235

Decks Running

113

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

Felidar Guardian

Creature — Cat Beast

When this creature enters, you may exile another target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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Aether Revolt (AER) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jakub Kasper

Final zone distribution

60 instances

3.3%

Library

50.0%

Battlefield

13.3%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 14 decks
2 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 7 decks
3 Brago, King Eternal 6 decks
4 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 4 decks
5 Arahbo, the First Fang 4 decks
6 Ketramose, the New Dawn 4 decks
7 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
8 The Jolly Balloon Man 4 decks
9 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 3 decks
10 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

237

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=32) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=138).

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 +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

16%

51%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 27% (6 / 37 cast on T4) 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.