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Mantle of the Ancients

· Enchantment — Aura · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

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Times Brought

1001

Decks Running

454

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

Mantle of the Ancients

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, return any number of target Aura and/or Equipment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it.

Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Rare · Illustrated by Denman Rooke

Final zone distribution

195 instances

2.1%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

7.7%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 88 decks
2 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 34 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 28 decks
4 Ellivere of the Wild Court 21 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 19 decks
6 Galea, Kindler of Hope 19 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 17 decks
8 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 17 decks
9 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 15 decks
10 Killian, Decisive Mentor 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1001 brought · 419 players

Brought to game

1001

Ever drawn

179

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=79) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=710).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=96).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=81

67%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 10% (5 / 81 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.