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Fierce Guardianship

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1854

Decks Running

959

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

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

Final zone distribution

444 instances

2.0%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

46.4%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 37 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 29 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 20 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 19 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 17 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 16 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 15 decks
8 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 14 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
10 Teval, the Balanced Scale 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1857 brought · 644 players

Brought to game

1857

Ever drawn

384

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=164) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1110).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=130) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=202

14%

15%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 11% (14 / 202 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

2247 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.