Live Play Data

Guardian of Ghirapur

· Creature — Angel · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

124

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

31%

27%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 21

On curve 8% (2 / 26 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

124 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

124

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.

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=25) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=72).

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 +25.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +47.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

26.3%

Battlefield

42.1%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

23.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 21 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 10 decks
3 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 9 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
5 Brago, King Eternal 3 decks
6 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 2 decks
7 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
8 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 2 decks
9 Aang, Airbending Master 1 decks
10 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier 1 decks

Card text

Guardian of Ghirapur

Creature — Angel

Flying When this creature enters, exile up to one other target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Cynthia Sheppard

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.