Live Play Data

Hardened Academic

· Creature — Bird Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

19%

13%

36%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 23% (12 / 64 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=58) , vs 35% when it never left the library (n=144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 50% (n=16).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.6pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

93 instances

2.2%

Library

41.9%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 32 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 13 decks
3 Massimo, the Magician 12 decks
4 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
6 General Ferrous Rokiric 2 decks
7 Ghen, Arcanum Weaver 2 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks
9 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury 2 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks

Card text

Hardened Academic

Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying, haste Discard a card: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Vincent Christiaens

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.