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Guardian of Faith

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

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Times Brought

653

Decks Running

338

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

138 instances

1.4%

Library

23.9%

Battlefield

23.9%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 122 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 28 decks
3 Sonic the Hedgehog 24 decks
4 King of the Oathbreakers 16 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 11 decks
6 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 7 decks
7 Millicent, Restless Revenant 7 decks
8 Errant and Giada 3 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
10 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

653 brought · 318 players

Brought to game

653

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=40) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=359).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=56).

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 -4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.4pp to +4.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

51%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 13% (5 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 10%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.