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Norn's Choirmaster

· Creature — Phyrexian Angel · Foundations Commander (FDC)

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Times Brought

301

Decks Running

169

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

Norn's Choirmaster

Creature — Phyrexian Angel

Flying, first strike Whenever a commander you control enters or attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

5 / 4

Foundations Commander (FDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

Final zone distribution

55 instances

3.6%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

21.8%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 51 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 26 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 20 decks
4 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 12 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 11 decks
6 Vishgraz, the Doomhive 8 decks
7 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 6 decks
8 Otharri, Suns' Glory 4 decks
9 Skrelv, Defector Mite 4 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

301 brought · 161 players

Brought to game

301

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -13.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=29) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=180).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=15).

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 -3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.2pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

27%

42%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 45% (9 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

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.