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Mother of Runes

· Creature — Human Cleric · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

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Times Brought

636

Decks Running

342

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Mother of Runes

Creature — Human Cleric

: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

Final zone distribution

117 instances

0.9%

Library

53.8%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 45 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 10 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 9 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 8 decks
6 Nalia de'Arnise 8 decks
7 Winota, Joiner of Forces 8 decks
8 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 7 decks
9 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks
10 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

638 brought · 305 players

Brought to game

638

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=75) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=405).

Observed gap -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=91

21%

19%

12%

13%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 21% (19 / 91 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

91 of 100 times cast 91%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.