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Live Play Data

Imperial Recruiter

{2} {R} · Creature — Human Advisor · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
3%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1751
Decks Running
766
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=256
3%
T1
11%
T2
14%
T3
17%
T4
13%
T5
37%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15
On curve 28% (36 / 256 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1751 brought · 632 players
Brought to game
1751
Ever drawn
395
Reached battlefield
256
Still on board at game end
121

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=235) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1142).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=127).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

445 instances
4.0%
Library
27.2%
Battlefield
33.5%
Graveyard
11.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Imperial Recruiter card

Imperial Recruiter

{2} {R}
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.
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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Mythic · 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.