Live Play Data

Forgotten Ancient

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5027

Decks Running

2124

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=799

17%

47%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 21

On curve 26% (134 / 799 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

5027 brought · 1753 players

Brought to game

5027

Ever drawn

1240

Reached battlefield

799

Still on board at game end

444

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=777) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=3424).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=413).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.5pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1337 instances

3.4%

Library

33.2%

Battlefield

27.8%

Graveyard

8.2%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.