Live Play Data

Imperial Recruiter

· Creature — Human Advisor · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2238

Decks Running

941

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=332

17%

16%

17%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 22% (56 / 332 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

2238 brought · 774 players

Brought to game

2238

Ever drawn

503

Reached battlefield

332

Still on board at game end

157

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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=307) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1461).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=155).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

565 instances

3.5%

Library

27.8%

Battlefield

35.8%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 68 decks
2 Norin the Wary 43 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 40 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 32 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 31 decks
6 Winota, Joiner of Forces 27 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 19 decks
8 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 17 decks
9 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
10 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 15 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.

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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 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.