Live Play Data

Formidable Speaker

· Creature — Elf Druid · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2069

Decks Running

871

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=349

21%

17%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 25% (72 / 349 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

2070 brought · 737 players

Brought to game

2070

Ever drawn

487

Reached battlefield

349

Still on board at game end

230

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.

≥ +8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=311) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1297).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=121).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval +8.7pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

555 instances

2.0%

Library

41.4%

Battlefield

27.6%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.