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Loyal Retainers

· Creature — Human Advisor · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

178

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

Loyal Retainers

Creature — Human Advisor

Sacrifice this creature: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole

Final zone distribution

64 instances

4.7%

Library

20.3%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

1.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 154 decks
2 Dihada, Binder of Wills 3 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
4 Quintorius, History Chaser 2 decks
5 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 1 decks
6 Akroma, Vision of Ixidor 1 decks
7 Ao, the Dawn Sky 1 decks
8 Celes, Rune Knight 1 decks
9 Ghen, Arcanum Weaver 1 decks
10 Kellan, Daring Traveler // Journey On 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -17.8pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=21) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=211).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=21).

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 -6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -17.8pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

61%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 3% (1 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.