Live Play Data

Fierce Guardianship

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

16%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5397

Decks Running

2437

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=795

11%

18%

52%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 7% (33 / 795 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

5400 brought · 1430 players

Brought to game

5400

Ever drawn

1331

Reached battlefield

795

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=743) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=3406).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=483).

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 +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval +8.0pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1496 instances

4.6%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

49.5%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 89 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 57 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 40 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 39 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 30 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 28 decks
7 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 28 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 28 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 28 decks
10 Ashling, the Limitless 26 decks

Card text

Fierce Guardianship

Instant

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

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.