Live Play Data

Loyal Guardian

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

553

Decks Running

253

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

13%

17%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 32% (12 / 72 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

553 brought · 251 players

Brought to game

553

Ever drawn

127

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=69) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=344).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=48).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances

34.1%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

37.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 116 decks
2 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 19 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 17 decks
4 Volo, Guide to Monsters 10 decks
5 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 6 decks
6 Lord Windgrace 5 decks
7 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks
8 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar 4 decks
9 Kudo, King Among Bears 3 decks
10 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 3 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.