Live Play Data

Patriarch's Bidding

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1070

Decks Running

488

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

40%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=91

11%

69%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 19% (10 / 91 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1072 brought · 447 players

Brought to game

1072

Ever drawn

228

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=86) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=680).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=121).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

265 instances

5.3%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

39.6%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marrow-Gnawer 42 decks
2 The First Sliver 36 decks
3 The Ur-Dragon 34 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 24 decks
5 Edgar Markov 23 decks
6 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 22 decks
7 Rivaz of the Claw 13 decks
8 Sliver Overlord 13 decks
9 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm 12 decks
10 The Wandering Minstrel 12 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 · 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.