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Hardened Academic

{R} {W} · Creature — Bird Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
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Times Brought
149
Decks Running
48
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

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

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Hardened Academic card

Hardened Academic

{R} {W}
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

Final zone distribution

82 instances
20.7%
Library
40.2%
Battlefield
29.3%
Graveyard
6.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 43 players
Brought to game
260
Ever drawn
80
Reached battlefield
58
Still on board at game end
33

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=43) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=79).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=58
17%
T1
31%
T2
10%
T3
9%
T4
10%
T5
17%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 11
On curve 48% (18 / 58 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

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.