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Perch Protection

· Instant · Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

341

Decks Running

179

In Decks

1102

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Perch Protection

Instant

Gift an extra turn (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they take an extra turn after this one.) Create four 2/2 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. If the gift was promised, all permanents you control phase out, and until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. Exile Perch Protection.

Bloomburrow Commander (BLC) · Rare · Illustrated by Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo

Final zone distribution

96 instances

2.1%

Library

5.2%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

22.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

341 brought · 170 players

Brought to game

341

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=40) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=223).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=41) — 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 -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

67%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 18% (5 / 45 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

45 of 100 times cast 45%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.