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Fierce Guardianship

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

6168

Decks Running

2799

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

1431 instances

3.3%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

42.3%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 95 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 92 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 58 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 53 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 49 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 43 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 37 decks
8 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 36 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 36 decks
10 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 34 decks

The "good card" funnel

6171 brought · 1678 players

Brought to game

6171

Ever drawn

1290

Reached battlefield

669

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=521) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3527).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=472).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=669

12%

18%

49%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 9% (33 / 669 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.