Live Play Data

Ilysian Caryatid

· Creature — Plant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1302

Decks Running

580

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=260

29%

11%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 38% (75 / 260 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

1303 brought · 538 players

Brought to game

1303

Ever drawn

336

Reached battlefield

260

Still on board at game end

131

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=225) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=814).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=71).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

362 instances

3.0%

Library

36.2%

Battlefield

38.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ilysian Caryatid

Creature — Plant

: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Common · Illustrated by Winona Nelson

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.