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Live Play Data

Lord of the Unreal

{U} {U} · Creature — Human Wizard · Magic 2012 (M12)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
227
Decks Running
51
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36
0%
T1
6%
T2
17%
T3
22%
T4
17%
T5
36%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 6% (2 / 36 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 48 players
Brought to game
227
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
36
Still on board at game end
20

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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=36) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=150).

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 +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances
35.7%
Battlefield
30.4%
Graveyard
10.7%
Exile
23.2%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Lord of the Unreal card

Lord of the Unreal

{U} {U}
Creature — Human Wizard
Illusion creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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Magic 2012 (M12) · 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.