Live Play Data

Fierce Guardianship

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

16%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

10209

Decks Running

4244

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1503

11%

17%

53%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 30

On curve 8% (82 / 1503 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

10213 brought · 2353 players

Brought to game

10213

Ever drawn

2543

Reached battlefield

1503

Still on board at game end

107

≥ +9.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=1370) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=6316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=927).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +9.9pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2904 instances

4.5%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

48.5%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 168 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 109 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 68 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 66 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 48 decks
6 The Wise Mothman 48 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 48 decks
8 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 47 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 45 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 45 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.