Live Play Data

Knight Exemplar

· Creature — Human Knight · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

393

Decks Running

180

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=88

24%

18%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 8% (4 / 88 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

393 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

393

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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 33% of the time (n=79) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=236).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 7% (n=24).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

0.8%

Library

39.8%

Battlefield

32.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 75 decks
2 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 21 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 10 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 9 decks
5 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 8 decks
6 The Council of Four 8 decks
7 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 7 decks
8 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 5 decks
9 Morophon, the Boundless 5 decks
10 Elenda and Azor 4 decks

Card text

Knight Exemplar

Creature — Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Other Knight creatures you control get +1/+1 and have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Chan

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.