Live Play Data

Guardian Scalelord

· Creature — Dragon · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

618

Decks Running

258

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

10%

19%

52%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 33% (16 / 83 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

618 brought · 241 players

Brought to game

618

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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 48% of the time (n=80) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=63).

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 +23.6pp; 95% confidence interval +12.4pp to +34.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

178 instances

5.1%

Library

24.2%

Battlefield

24.7%

Graveyard

18.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Guardian Scalelord

Creature — Dragon

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, return target nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is this creature's power.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

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.