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Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor

· Legendary Creature — Fox Advisor · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

266

Decks Running

156

In Decks

1084

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor

Legendary Creature — Fox Advisor

Lifelink Enchantment spells you cast have affinity for Auras. (They cost {1}

less to cast for each Aura you control.) Whenever you cast an Aura spell that targets a modified permanent you control, draw a card. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fajareka Setiawan

Final zone distribution

77 instances

5.2%

Library

26.0%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

266 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

266

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=41) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=20) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

15%

20%

15%

32%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 17% (6 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.