Live Play Data

Fierce Guardianship

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

16%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7626

Decks Running

3366

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1127

11%

17%

54%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 7% (51 / 1127 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

7630 brought · 1941 players

Brought to game

7630

Ever drawn

1904

Reached battlefield

1127

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=1030) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4731).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=690).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +8.6pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2147 instances

4.6%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 139 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 85 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 57 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 50 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 37 decks
6 The Wise Mothman 37 decks
7 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 36 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 36 decks
9 Urza, Lord High Artificer 35 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 34 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.