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Patriarch's Bidding
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Sorcery
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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
Times Brought
505
Decks Running
223
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
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)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Ilse Gort
Final zone distribution
100 instances5.0%
Library
6.0%
Battlefield
37.0%
Graveyard
2.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Ur-Dragon
20 decks
-
2
The First Sliver
19 decks
-
3
Edgar Markov
14 decks
-
4
Marrow-Gnawer
13 decks
-
5
High Perfect Morcant
7 decks
-
6
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
7 decks
-
7
Sliver Overlord
7 decks
-
8
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
6 decks
-
9
Thranduil, the Elvenking
6 decks
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10
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
5 decks
The "good card" funnel
505 brought · 204 playersBrought to game
505
Ever drawn
93
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -6.1pp
Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=24) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=319).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=45).
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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=31
6%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
0%
T4
19%
T5
42%
T6-9
29%
T10+
Median
8
P25
5
· P75
11
· max
17
On curve
29%
(6 / 31 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
27%
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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.