Live Play Data

Formidable Speaker

· Creature — Elf Druid · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1526

Decks Running

680

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=258

16%

17%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 27% (42 / 258 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1527 brought · 583 players

Brought to game

1527

Ever drawn

364

Reached battlefield

258

Still on board at game end

168

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=226) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=945).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

417 instances

1.9%

Library

40.3%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 60 decks
2 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 35 decks
3 High Perfect Morcant 31 decks
4 Radagast of Rhosgobel 25 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 19 decks
6 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 17 decks
7 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 16 decks
8 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 14 decks
9 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 14 decks
10 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 13 decks

Card text

Formidable Speaker

Creature — Elf Druid

When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {1}

: Untap another target permanent.

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Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Rare · Illustrated by Aurore Folny

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.