Growing Ranks card art
Live Play Data

Growing Ranks

{2} {G/W} {G/W} · Enchantment · Commander 2019 (C19)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
427
Decks Running
224
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
56%
Format

First-cast turn

n=47
0%
T1
4%
T2
2%
T3
13%
T4
13%
T5
45%
T6-9
23%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12
On curve 19% (6 / 47 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

427 brought · 214 players
Brought to game
427
Ever drawn
84
Reached battlefield
47
Still on board at game end
37

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=41) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=279).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=32).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

98 instances
1.0%
Library
37.8%
Battlefield
20.4%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Growing Ranks card

Growing Ranks

{2} {G/W} {G/W}
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
Commander 2019 (C19) · Rare · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.