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Palace Jailer

· Creature — Human Soldier · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

441

Decks Running

209

In Decks

1313

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Palace Jailer

Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

Final zone distribution

119 instances

2.5%

Library

26.9%

Battlefield

29.4%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 61 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 44 decks
3 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 37 decks
4 Aragorn, King of Gondor 14 decks
5 Queen Marchesa 6 decks
6 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
7 Brago, King Eternal 2 decks
8 Darien, King of Kjeldor 2 decks
9 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 2 decks
10 Heidegger, Shinra Executive 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

441 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

441

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=55) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=260).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38) — 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 +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

12%

20%

48%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 15% (8 / 65 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

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