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Patriarch's Bidding

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

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Times Brought

631

Decks Running

280

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

125 instances

4.0%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

36.8%

Graveyard

1.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The First Sliver 23 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 21 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 20 decks
4 Edgar Markov 16 decks
5 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 10 decks
6 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 8 decks
7 Sliver Overlord 8 decks
8 High Perfect Morcant 7 decks
9 The Great Goblin 7 decks
10 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

631 brought · 257 players

Brought to game

631

Ever drawn

115

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=29) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=54).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

45%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 11 · max 17

On curve 24% (6 / 38 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.