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Forgotten Ancient

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

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Times Brought

2543

Decks Running

1206

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

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

Final zone distribution

554 instances

1.4%

Library

39.5%

Battlefield

22.4%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

2545 brought · 1029 players

Brought to game

2545

Ever drawn

523

Reached battlefield

332

Still on board at game end

219

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=235) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1397).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=132).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=332

15%

18%

13%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 25

On curve 38% (60 / 332 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.