Live Play Data
Imperial Recruiter
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Creature — Human Advisor
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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
723
Decks Running
364
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
66%
Format
First-cast turn
n=103
1%
T1
9%
T2
10%
T3
21%
T4
13%
T5
39%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
5
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
19%
(10 / 103 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
The "good card" funnel
723 brought · 311 playersBrought to game
723
Ever drawn
156
Reached battlefield
103
Still on board at game end
55
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.
≥ -0.5pp
Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=96) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=473).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=50).
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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
177 instances2.3%
Library
31.1%
Battlefield
32.2%
Graveyard
11.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Krenko, Mob Boss
23 decks
-
2
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
18 decks
-
3
Norin the Wary
15 decks
-
4
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
10 decks
-
5
Winota, Joiner of Forces
10 decks
-
6
Animar, Soul of Elements
9 decks
-
7
Mr. House, President and CEO
9 decks
-
8
Terra, Herald of Hope
9 decks
-
9
The Jolly Balloon Man
9 decks
-
10
Marchesa, the Black Rose
8 decks
Card text
Imperial Recruiter
Creature — Human Advisor
When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
1 / 1
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Zack Stella
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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.