Live Play Data

Merchant of Truth

· Creature — Angel Detective · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

515

Decks Running

261

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77

14%

13%

36%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 31% (10 / 77 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

515 brought · 266 players

Brought to game

515

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=67) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=330).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=32).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

0.8%

Library

26.0%

Battlefield

33.6%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 189 decks
2 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 29 decks
3 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 12 decks
4 Tivit, Seller of Secrets 5 decks
5 Cecily, Haunted Mage 4 decks
6 Sophia, Dogged Detective 3 decks
7 Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise 2 decks
8 Othelm, Sigardian Outcast 2 decks
9 Rafiq of the Many 2 decks
10 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch 2 decks

Card text

Merchant of Truth

Creature — Angel Detective

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Carissa Susilo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.