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Recruiter of the Guard

· Creature — Human Soldier · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

444

Decks Running

197

In Decks

1352

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Recruiter of the Guard

Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Wilkerson

Final zone distribution

110 instances

8.2%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 8 decks
2 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 7 decks
3 Brago, King Eternal 7 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 6 decks
5 The Jolly Balloon Man 6 decks
6 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 6 decks
7 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks
8 Monk Gyatso 5 decks
9 Darien, King of Kjeldor 4 decks
10 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

444 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

444

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=74) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=310).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=24) — 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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=77

14%

16%

35%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 23% (6 / 77 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

77 of 100 times cast 77%

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.