Live Play Data

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· Creature — Elf Advisor · Battlebond (BBD)

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Times Brought

843

Decks Running

403

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=133

13%

14%

19%

41%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 15% (17 / 133 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

843 brought · 374 players

Brought to game

843

Ever drawn

205

Reached battlefield

133

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=123) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=529).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=62).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

227 instances

1.8%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

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Creature — Elf Advisor

When this creature enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.) Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, draw a card.

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Battlebond (BBD) · Rare · Illustrated by Lucas Graciano

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.