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Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Live Play Data
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
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Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
449
Decks Running
203
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
First-cast turn
n=125
2%
T1
4%
T2
23%
T3
22%
T4
15%
T5
24%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
4
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
16
On curve
51%
(27 / 125 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
41%
The "good card" funnel
450 brought · 191 playersBrought to game
450
Ever drawn
106
Reached battlefield
68
Still on board at game end
30
Once cast, 44% 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.
≥ +0.8pp
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=65) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=294).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=34).
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 +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +23.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
110 instances3.6%
Library
27.3%
Battlefield
28.2%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
32 decks
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2
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
24 decks
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3
Sen Triplets
12 decks
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4
Hope Estheim
9 decks
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5
Whtz, the Bibliophile
8 decks
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6
Zur the Enchanter
8 decks
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7
Brago, King Eternal
7 decks
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8
Numot, the Devastator
6 decks
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9
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
6 decks
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10
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
5 decks
Card text
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
White spells you cast cost 
less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost more to cast.
less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost more to cast.2 / 3
Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.