Live Play Data

Noble Hierarch

· Creature — Human Druid · Double Masters (2XM)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

517

Decks Running

260

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

12% of tracked Commander decks run Noble Hierarch, and 78% of drawn copies reach the battlefield, with a median first-cast turn of 4.

Noble Hierarch sits in 12% of the 2127 distinct Commander decks that have played a tracked game on Playgroup Live. That is a selective but dedicated slice: the card's Bant color identity (green, white, blue) locks it out of most of the format, so its footprint among eligible decks is considerably denser than the headline rate suggests.

When a copy enters a player's hand, 78% of those instances are cast before the game ends. Median first cast lands on turn 4, though the mode is turn 1, reflecting how often players keep it in an opening hand and deploy it immediately. The data shows 232 distinct players have brought the card to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than a small fraction of those instances, so the numbers are well-spread across the user base.

Noble Hierarch earns its reputation as a format staple wherever its colors appear. One mana for mana acceleration plus a passive exalted boost for aggressive lines makes it a dual-purpose piece in midrange, goodstuff, and combat-oriented builds alike. The top commanders in the dataset reflect that range: from five-color goodstuff piles like The Ur-Dragon and Kenrith to dedicated Bant commanders such as Rafiq of the Many, where exalted stacks directly with the commander's own ability.

At a glance

12% of tracked Commander decks include Noble Hierarch
78% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
T4 median first-cast turn (mode is turn 1)
51% battlefield stickiness once cast
27% of first casts land exactly on curve for a 1-mana spell
232 distinct players have brought Noble Hierarch to a tracked game

First-cast turn

n=101

27%

11%

13%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 27% (27 / 101 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

517 brought · 232 players

Brought to game

517

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

78%

Of 517 Noble Hierarchs brought to tracked games, 130 were drawn, 101 of those were cast, and roughly half of cast copies remained on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ -12.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=87) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=330).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=27) — 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 -2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.0pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

141 instances

3.5%

Library

37.6%

Battlefield

31.2%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Most Noble Hierarch instances that were brought to a game but never interacted with stay in the library, which is expected for any singleton in a 100-card deck. Among observed copies, the battlefield is the most common landing spot, consistent with the card's role as an early-game piece that stays in play.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander distribution is wide: The Ur-Dragon leads, but the deck counts drop off gradually across ten different commanders spanning five-color goodstuff, Bant midrange, and dedicated exalted builds, signaling broad rather than niche adoption.

Card text

Noble Hierarch

Creature — Human Druid

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}

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Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Zug

Frequently Asked

How often is Noble Hierarch drawn in a Commander game?

Across 493 tracked multiplayer Commander games where Noble Hierarch was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That figure is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 130 instances that reached a player's hand, 78% were cast before the game ended.

What turn does Noble Hierarch usually hit the battlefield?

The median first-cast turn is 4, but the distribution is front-loaded: the single most common cast turn is turn 1, which happens when the card is in the opening hand and deployed immediately. The 25th percentile sits at turn 1 and the 75th at turn 6, reflecting a wide spread between games where it ramps early and games where it is drawn late.

Does casting Noble Hierarch actually improve your win rate?

The cast-vs-library win-rate delta in the multiplayer dataset is slightly negative at this snapshot, meaning the effect is noisy and directional at best. Both sample buckets are meaningful in size, but the confidence interval crosses zero, so we cannot call it a clear lift. The card's value is well understood contextually: early mana acceleration and exalted are strong, but the win-rate metric here is controlled for deck quality and does not isolate the card's individual contribution cleanly on this sample.

Is Noble Hierarch legal in Commander?

Yes. Noble Hierarch is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and several other formats. It is not legal in Pioneer, Standard, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. In Commander it is unrestricted, though its Bant color identity (green, white, blue) limits it to decks whose commander includes those three colors or a subset of them.

Which commanders most commonly run Noble Hierarch?

In the Playgroup Live multiplayer dataset, The Ur-Dragon leads by deck count, followed by Ms. Bumbleflower and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. That spread makes sense: five-color and four-color goodstuff commanders can all slot Noble Hierarch in, and dedicated Bant commanders like Rafiq of the Many benefit from the exalted synergy stacking. The commander list is wide rather than concentrated, which is an early signal that the card is a broadly adopted mana piece rather than a build-around.

How quickly do players cast Noble Hierarch after drawing it?

Of instances that were both drawn and cast, 66% were cast on the same turn they were drawn. The median holding time before casting is 0 turns. That matches the intuition that players rarely sit on a one-mana accelerant: when you draw it, you cast it. The small average delay reflects edge cases where players hold it for a specific reason or draw it into a mana-flooded situation near the end of a game.