Live Play Data

Narset of the Ancient Way

· Legendary Planeswalker — Narset · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

129

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

45%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 23% (3 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

129 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

129

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -20.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=29) , vs 35% when it never left the library (n=72).

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 -1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -20.0pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

34.0%

Battlefield

36.2%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 36 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 5 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
4 Narset, Enlightened Master 3 decks
5 Kykar, Wind's Fury 2 decks
6 Leori, Sparktouched Hunter 2 decks
7 The Thing 2 decks
8 Elsha of the Infinite 1 decks
9 Jegantha, the Wellspring 1 decks
10 Kilo, Apogee Mind 1 decks

Card text

Narset of the Ancient Way

Legendary Planeswalker — Narset

+1: You gain 2 life. Add {U}

, or

. Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell. −2: Draw a card, then you may discard a card. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target."

Loyalty 4

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.