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Live Play Data

Killian, Decisive Mentor

{1} {W} {B} · Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
218
Decks Running
72
Median Cast Turn
3.0
Drawn → Played
79%
Format

First-cast turn

n=272
2%
T1
21%
T2
33%
T3
21%
T4
10%
T5
11%
T6-9
1%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 3 · P75 4 · max 11
On curve 56% (91 / 272 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 68 players
Brought to game
218
Ever drawn
39
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
19

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.

≥ -13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=28) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=144).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -13.3pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances
4.4%
Library
42.2%
Battlefield
24.4%
Graveyard
17.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Killian, Decisive Mentor card

Killian, Decisive Mentor

{1} {W} {B}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Whenever an enchantment you control enters, tap up to one target creature and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever one or more creatures that are enchanted by an Aura you control attack, draw a card.
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Billy Christian

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.