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Lyra Dawnbringer

{3} {W} {W} · Legendary Creature — Angel · Foundations (FDN)
Times Brought
809
Decks Running
362
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Lyra Dawnbringer card

Lyra Dawnbringer

{3} {W} {W}
Legendary Creature — Angel
Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
5 / 5
Foundations (FDN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

166 instances
46.4%
Battlefield
20.5%
Graveyard
9.6%
Exile
23.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

809 brought · 336 players
Brought to game
809
Ever drawn
157
Reached battlefield
123
Still on board at game end
77

Once cast, 63% 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 34% of the time (n=97) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=431).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=28).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=129
0%
T1
2%
T2
8%
T3
16%
T4
22%
T5
40%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20
On curve 47% (29 / 129 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.