Live Play Data
Patriarch's Bidding
·
Sorcery
·
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
610
Decks Running
285
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
38%
Format
First-cast turn
n=43
2%
T1
0%
T2
2%
T3
0%
T4
7%
T5
77%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
7
P25
6
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
12%
(3 / 43 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
32%
The "good card" funnel
610 brought · 263 playersBrought to game
610
Ever drawn
114
Reached battlefield
43
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -0.8pp
Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=39) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=394).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=64).
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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
135 instances4.4%
Library
4.4%
Battlefield
43.7%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Marrow-Gnawer
24 decks
-
2
The Ur-Dragon
21 decks
-
3
The First Sliver
20 decks
-
4
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
14 decks
-
5
Edgar Markov
13 decks
-
6
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
12 decks
-
7
Rivaz of the Claw
11 decks
-
8
Sliver Overlord
8 decks
-
9
The Wandering Minstrel
8 decks
-
10
Thranduil, the Elvenking
7 decks
Card text
Patriarch's Bidding
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
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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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.