Live Play Data

Recruiter of the Guard

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1029

Decks Running

452

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180

12%

14%

19%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (21 / 180 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1029 brought · 376 players

Brought to game

1029

Ever drawn

248

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=171) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=694).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=62).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

263 instances

6.1%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Whtz, the Bibliophile 23 decks
2 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 17 decks
3 Brago, King Eternal 17 decks
4 Winota, Joiner of Forces 17 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 13 decks
6 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 12 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 10 decks
8 The Jolly Balloon Man 10 decks
9 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 10 decks
10 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 9 decks

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

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.