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Live Play Data

Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Creature — Djinn Monk // Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
4%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
721
Decks Running
366
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
62%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

4% of tracked Commander decks run Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak. When drawn, 62% of copies are cast, with a median first-cast turn of 5.0.

Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak is a double-faced card from Modern Horizons 3, offering either a 5-mana Red Djinn Monk creature or a land that taps for colored mana. Across 677 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live, 4% of decks in the dataset include it, spread across 366 distinct decklists.

The creature face dominates actual play. Of 724 instances brought to games, 219 were drawn and 136 were cast. That 62% draw-to-play rate is solid for a 5-mana spell: players who find it generally deploy it, though the median first-cast turn of 5.0 confirms it lands squarely in the mid-to-late game. 68% of cast copies survive to end of game, a reasonable stickiness figure for a creature at this cost.

At a 5 mana value, only 53% of casts land exactly on curve. The bulk arrive behind curve, reflecting both late draws and the realities of 100-card singleton. Notably, 304 distinct players have brought the card to a tracked game, and the heaviest single contributor accounts for just 3% of all instances. That spread gives the data here real breadth.

At a glance
  • 4% of tracked Commander decks include Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 62% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
  • T5.0 median first-cast turn for the creature face
  • 68% battlefield stickiness once cast
  • 304 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
  • 53% of casts land exactly on curve at mana value 5

First-cast turn

n=136
8%
T1
7%
T2
10%
T3
14%
T4
15%
T5
40%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 53% (20 / 136 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

724 brought · 304 players
Brought to game
724
Ever drawn
219
Reached battlefield
136
Still on board at game end
92
62%

Of 724 copies brought to games, 219 were drawn, 136 of those were cast, and 68% of resolved copies remained on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=124) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=417).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=70) — 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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

234 instances
4.3%
Library
39.3%
Battlefield
28.6%
Graveyard
7.3%
Exile

Most instances of Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak end games on the battlefield or in the graveyard after resolving, rather than sitting unplayed in the library. That pattern is early evidence the card earns its slot when drawn.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander list is genuinely diverse, spanning five different color combinations and multiple archetypes. No single commander dominates, which suggests Pinnacle Monk fits broadly across Red strategies rather than homing in on one shell.

Card text
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak card Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak back face

Pinnacle Monk

{3} {R} {R}
Creature — Djinn Monk
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
2 / 2

Mystic Peak

Land
As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}.
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

Frequently Asked

How often is Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak drawn in a Commander game?
Across 677 tracked multiplayer games where the card was in the deck, it was drawn 30% of the time. That figure is consistent with a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 219 drawn copies, 136 were cast, giving a draw-to-play rate of 62%. Some uncast copies reflect games that ended before the player had the opportunity to deploy a 5-mana spell.
What turn does Pinnacle Monk usually hit the battlefield?
Median first-cast turn is 5.0 in multiplayer Commander, with a wide spread from early ramp lines to late-game draws. The 25th percentile lands on turn 4 and the 90th percentile reaches turn 9, so the card sees action throughout the mid and late game rather than clustering tightly on any single turn.
Does casting Pinnacle Monk improve your win rate?
There is a directional positive signal in the data. The normalized win rate when cast is 32% across 124 participations, compared to 24% when the card remained in the library. The sample sizes here are large enough to take seriously, but the confidence interval still overlaps zero at the low end, so treat this as a consistent early signal rather than a definitive conclusion.
Is Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak legal in Commander?
Yes. Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak from Modern Horizons 3 is legal in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, and Timeless. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander.
Which commanders run Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak most often?
Vivi Ornitier leads the tracked dataset with 9 decks, followed by Kuja, Genome Sorcerer and Lorehold, the Historian at 7 each. The spread across commanders is broad: the top 10 list spans mono-Red, Rakdos, Gruul, Jeskai, and Mardu color identities, suggesting the card fits comfortably into many Red-based strategies rather than being a build-around for one archetype.
How concentrated is the data for this card?
The data is well-spread. 304 distinct players have brought Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 3% of all instances. That diversity strengthens confidence in the directional trends shown here, even within Playgroup Live's still-growing dataset of 677 multiplayer games.