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Formidable Speaker

· Creature — Elf Druid · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

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Times Brought

872

Decks Running

439

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

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

Final zone distribution

201 instances

2.5%

Library

53.7%

Battlefield

17.4%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 50 decks
2 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 31 decks
3 High Perfect Morcant 24 decks
4 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 16 decks
5 Radagast of Rhosgobel 15 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 14 decks
7 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 10 decks
8 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 10 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 9 decks
10 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

872 brought · 392 players

Brought to game

872

Ever drawn

188

Reached battlefield

139

Still on board at game end

108

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=120) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=487).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=33).

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 -2.7pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=139

13%

14%

17%

14%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 32% (19 / 139 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.