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Part of Starter Commander Decks
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Creature — Treefolk
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Commander 2019 (C19)
Live Play Data
Great Oak Guardian
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
235
Decks Running
98
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
52%
Format
First-cast turn
n=30
3%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
7%
T4
17%
T5
60%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
57%
(8 / 30 cast on T6)
Cast same turn as drawn
33%
The "good card" funnel
235 brought · 130 playersBrought to game
235
Ever drawn
58
Reached battlefield
30
Still on board at game end
18
Once cast, 60% 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.
≥ -6.4pp
Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=147).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=24).
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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +28.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
62 instances29.0%
Battlefield
35.5%
Graveyard
6.5%
Exile
29.0%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
34 decks
-
2
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
17 decks
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3
Sam, Loyal Attendant
12 decks
-
4
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
10 decks
-
5
Helga, Skittish Seer
7 decks
-
6
Fangorn, Tree Shepherd
5 decks
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7
Marwyn, the Nurturer
5 decks
-
8
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
4 decks
-
9
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
4 decks
-
10
Doran, Besieged by Time
2 decks
Card text
Great Oak Guardian
Creature — Treefolk
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Reach
When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.
4 / 5
Commander 2019 (C19)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Steven Belledin
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.