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Mangara, the Diplomat

· Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

451

Decks Running

255

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

Mangara, the Diplomat

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Howard Lyon

Final zone distribution

101 instances

3.0%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

22.8%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ms. Bumbleflower 31 decks
2 Killian, Decisive Mentor 30 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 14 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 12 decks
5 Shiko and Narset, Unified 12 decks
6 Hope Estheim 6 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 5 decks
8 Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart 5 decks
9 Iroh, Tea Master 5 decks
10 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

451 brought · 233 players

Brought to game

451

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=40) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=31) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

17%

15%

35%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 33% (9 / 54 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

54 of 100 times cast 54%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.