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Imperial Recruiter

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

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Times Brought

716

Decks Running

372

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

154 instances

0.6%

Library

39.6%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 32 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 25 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 19 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 17 decks
5 Norin the Wary 13 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
8 The Jolly Balloon Man 8 decks
9 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 5 decks
10 Baylen, the Haymaker 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

716 brought · 330 players

Brought to game

716

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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 24% of the time (n=74) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=424).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=34).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +4.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=100

15%

13%

16%

12%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 35% (13 / 100 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.