Live Play Data

Linvala, the Preserver

· Legendary Creature — Angel · Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

369

Decks Running

215

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=56

18%

54%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 36% (8 / 56 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

369 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

369

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=46) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (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 +16.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +30.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

35.6%

Battlefield

26.4%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 190 decks
2 Aerith, Last Ancient 2 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 2 decks
4 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 2 decks
5 Aerith Gainsborough 1 decks
6 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks
7 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 1 decks
8 Brago, King Eternal 1 decks
9 Drana and Linvala 1 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks

Card text

Linvala, the Preserver

Legendary Creature — Angel

Flying When Linvala enters, if an opponent has more life than you, you gain 5 life. When Linvala enters, if an opponent controls more creatures than you, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.

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Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.