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Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief

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

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

214

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

Ishgard, the Holy See

Land — Town

This land enters tapped. {T}

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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

Final zone distribution

101 instances

1.0%

Library

55.4%

Battlefield

8.9%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 19 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
3 The Wandering Minstrel 14 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 11 decks
5 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 11 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 9 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 7 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 6 decks
9 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 4 decks
10 Giada, Font of Hope 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

447 brought · 199 players

Brought to game

447

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=51) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=278).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=26).

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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +6.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=62

19%

13%

11%

32%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.