Live Play Data

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· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

150

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

35%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 10% (2 / 20 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

150 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

150

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=17) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=95).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=15).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +39.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 5 decks
2 Pako, Arcane Retriever 5 decks
3 Baral, Chief of Compliance 4 decks
4 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive 4 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
6 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks
7 Edward Kenway 2 decks
8 Lonis, Cryptozoologist 2 decks
9 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 2 decks
10 Namor the Sub-Mariner 2 decks

Card text

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Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Eternal Masters (EMA) · Common · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.