Live Play Data

Pristine Talisman

· Artifact · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

787

Decks Running

404

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

20%

16%

12%

31%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 18

On curve 28% (27 / 137 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

791 brought · 373 players

Brought to game

791

Ever drawn

173

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

110

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=118) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=516).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=30).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

195 instances

2.1%

Library

56.4%

Battlefield

14.9%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Pristine Talisman

Artifact

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Common · Illustrated by Matt Cavotta

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.