Live Play Data

Ilysian Caryatid

· Creature — Plant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

517

Decks Running

223

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

10%

29%

10%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 39% (30 / 105 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

518 brought · 208 players

Brought to game

518

Ever drawn

140

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=97) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=329).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=33).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

151 instances

3.3%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

35.8%

Graveyard

6.0%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.