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Guardian of Faith

· Creature — Spirit Knight · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

332

Decks Running

179

In Decks

1399

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Guardian of Faith

Creature — Spirit Knight

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

Final zone distribution

77 instances

3.9%

Library

15.6%

Battlefield

32.5%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 60 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 20 decks
3 Sonic the Hedgehog 13 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 7 decks
5 Millicent, Restless Revenant 7 decks
6 King of the Oathbreakers 6 decks
7 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 5 decks
8 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 3 decks
9 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace 2 decks
10 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

332 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

332

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=32) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=224).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=34) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +28.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

59%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.