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Minamo, School at Water's Edge

Legendary Land · Champions of Kamigawa (CHK)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

391

Decks Running

194

In Decks

1529

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

126 instances

1.6%

Library

60.3%

Battlefield

16.7%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Helga, Skittish Seer 6 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks
3 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 6 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
5 Loki, Lord of Misrule 5 decks
6 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 4 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
8 Thrasios, Triton Hero 4 decks
9 Urza, Lord High Artificer 4 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

391 brought · 161 players

Brought to game

391

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=78) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=31) — 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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80

13%

16%

11%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

80 of 100 times cast 80%

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 620,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.