Live Play Data

Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief

· Land — Town // Sorcery — Adventure · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1013

Decks Running

492

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=149

15%

10%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1013 brought · 428 players

Brought to game

1013

Ever drawn

251

Reached battlefield

149

Still on board at game end

124

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=137) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=662).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=93).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

278 instances

1.8%

Library

44.6%

Battlefield

21.2%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wandering Minstrel 34 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 29 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 22 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 20 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 20 decks
6 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 16 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 13 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 13 decks
9 Hope Estheim 12 decks
10 Yuna, Hope of Spira 9 decks

Card text

Ishgard, the Holy See

Land — Town

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

Faith & Grief

Sorcery — Adventure

Return up to two target artifact and/or enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may play the land later from exile.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by KOHEI YAMADA

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.