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Guardian Scalelord

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

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Times Brought

353

Decks Running

194

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 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

Final zone distribution

84 instances

1.2%

Library

32.1%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

353 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

353

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=27) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=205).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=22).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

33%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 43% (13 / 40 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.