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Part of March of the Machine
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Creature — Human Soldier
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The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)
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Mentor of the Meek
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
391
Decks Running
235
In Decks
1999
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
93 instances7.5%
Library
25.8%
Battlefield
43.0%
Graveyard
5.4%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
25 decks
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2
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
21 decks
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3
Emmara, Soul of the Accord
9 decks
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4
Darien, King of Kjeldor
7 decks
-
5
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
6 decks
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6
Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
6 decks
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7
Neyali, Suns' Vanguard
5 decks
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8
Zinnia, Valley's Voice
5 decks
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9
Aragorn, the Uniter
4 decks
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10
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
391 brought · 219 playersBrought to game
391
Ever drawn
82
Reached battlefield
49
Still on board at game end
24
Once cast, 49% 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.
≥ -6.1pp
Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=47) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=272).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=29) — 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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=49
0%
T1
6%
T2
22%
T3
16%
T4
12%
T5
31%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
5
P25
3
· P75
8
· max
20
On curve
29%
(11 / 49 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
30%
49 of 100 times cast
49%
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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.