Live Play Data

Path of Ancestry

Land · Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC)

31%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

10164

Decks Running

5311

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1837

32%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

10175 brought · 2727 players

Brought to game

10175

Ever drawn

2478

Reached battlefield

1837

Still on board at game end

1698

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=1703) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=6478).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=578).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +6.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2719 instances

3.0%

Library

62.4%

Battlefield

14.2%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 122 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 119 decks
3 Captain America, Team Leader 105 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 99 decks
5 Dina, Essence Brewer 79 decks
6 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 77 decks
7 Ashling, the Limitless 76 decks
8 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 73 decks
9 Killian, Decisive Mentor 72 decks
10 T'Challa, the Black Panther 69 decks

Card text

Path of Ancestry

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC) · Common · Illustrated by Alayna Danner

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.