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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
644
Decks Running
271
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
66%
Format
First-cast turn
n=184
2%
T1
4%
T2
23%
T3
20%
T4
15%
T5
27%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
16
On curve
49%
(37 / 184 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
39%
The "good card" funnel
645 brought · 251 playersBrought to game
645
Ever drawn
149
Reached battlefield
99
Still on board at game end
43
Once cast, 43% 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.
≥ +4.2pp
Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=91) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=428).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=45).
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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.2pp to +23.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
157 instances3.2%
Library
27.4%
Battlefield
26.8%
Graveyard
15.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
45 decks
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2
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
29 decks
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3
Sen Triplets
15 decks
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4
Whtz, the Bibliophile
13 decks
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5
Zur the Enchanter
10 decks
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6
Hope Estheim
9 decks
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7
Brago, King Eternal
8 decks
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8
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
7 decks
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9
Hylda of the Icy Crown
6 decks
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10
Numot, the Devastator
6 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.