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Melancholic Poet

{1} {B} · Creature — Elf Bard · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
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Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
90
Decks Running
43
In Decks
188
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Melancholic Poet card

Melancholic Poet

{1} {B}
Creature — Elf Bard
Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Elizabeth Peiró

Final zone distribution

27 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

90 brought · 42 players
Brought to game
90
Ever drawn
25
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
8

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 0% of the time (n=19) , vs 8% when it never left the library (n=56).

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 -8.5pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to -2.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20
0%
T1
25%
T2
10%
T3
5%
T4
0%
T5
35%
T6-9
25%
T10+
Median 6.5 P25 3 · P75 11 · max 19
On curve 25% (5 / 20 cast on T2)

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.