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Lathril, Blade of the Elves

· Legendary Creature — Elf Noble · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

407

Decks Running

201

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

Lathril, Blade of the Elves

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever Lathril deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. {T}

, Tap ten untapped Elves you control: Each opponent loses 10 life and you gain 10 life.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Caroline Gariba

Final zone distribution

95 instances

2.1%

Library

43.2%

Battlefield

29.5%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 86 decks
2 High Perfect Morcant 49 decks
3 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 31 decks
4 Tyvar the Bellicose 6 decks
5 Dina, Essence Brewer 5 decks
6 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler 3 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks
8 Glissa Sunslayer 2 decks
9 Volrath, the Shapestealer 2 decks
10 Abomination of Llanowar 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

407 brought · 189 players

Brought to game

407

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=60) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=239).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=20).

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 +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=223

10%

21%

25%

15%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 59% (55 / 223 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.