Live Play Data

For the Ancestors

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

153

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

36%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 18% (3 / 22 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

153 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

153

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -23.7pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=20) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=91).

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 -7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -23.7pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

2.2%

Library

50.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

39.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

For the Ancestors

Instant

Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Flashback {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Hristo D. Chukov

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.