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Live Play Data

Patriarch's Bidding

{3} {B} {B} · Sorcery · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1411
Decks Running
610
Median Cast Turn
8.0
Drawn → Played
41%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=120
1%
T1
1%
T2
1%
T3
2%
T4
8%
T5
71%
T6-9
18%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 15
On curve 12% (9 / 120 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1413 brought · 556 players
Brought to game
1413
Ever drawn
295
Reached battlefield
120
Still on board at game end
15
≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=112) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=915).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=155).

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 +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

341 instances
5.9%
Library
4.4%
Battlefield
40.2%
Graveyard
5.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Patriarch's Bidding card

Patriarch's Bidding

{3} {B} {B}
Sorcery
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Ilse Gort

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.