Live Play Data

Forgotten Ancient

· Creature — Elemental · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2995

Decks Running

1388

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=472

17%

15%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 30% (79 / 472 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

2995 brought · 1167 players

Brought to game

2995

Ever drawn

739

Reached battlefield

472

Still on board at game end

255

Once cast, 54% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=421) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1904).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=239).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

796 instances

3.4%

Library

32.0%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Forgotten Ancient

Creature — Elemental

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Tedin

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.