Live Play Data

Loyal Guardian

· Creature — Rhino · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

947

Decks Running

408

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=126

22%

55%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 29% (28 / 126 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

947 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

947

Ever drawn

218

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=116) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=586).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=82).

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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

233 instances

1.7%

Library

31.8%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 173 decks
2 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 37 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 26 decks
4 Volo, Guide to Monsters 14 decks
5 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 10 decks
6 Lord Windgrace 10 decks
7 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar 6 decks
8 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 6 decks
9 Shalai and Hallar 5 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks

Card text

Loyal Guardian

Creature — Rhino

Trample Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kevin Sidharta

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.