Reliquary Tower
Reliquary Tower sits in 29% of tracked Commander decks, and 79% of drawn copies reach the battlefield, with a median first-cast turn of 5.
Reliquary Tower is a colorless utility land that removes your maximum hand size while still tapping for mana. Across 2608 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live, it appears in 2195 of 7568 distinct decks, an inclusion rate of 29%.
When the Tower does reach a player's hand, 79% of those copies get played before the game ends. That is on the high end for a utility land: players who draw it tend to deploy it. The median first-cast turn is 5, though the distribution is spread wide, with copies landing as early as turn 1 and as late as turn 14 in this dataset. Once it hits the battlefield, it is sticky: 93% of cast copies remain in play at game's end, which makes sense for a land with no built-in sacrifice cost.
The card is colorless, so it fits in any deck's mana base. It earns its slot in decks that draw lots of cards and need to hold large hands, making it especially common alongside commanders that generate card advantage. The data is well-spread across players: 1149 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 1% of all instances, a healthy sign of breadth.
- 29% of tracked Commander decks include Reliquary Tower
- 79% of drawn copies are played before the game ends
- T5 median first-cast turn
- 93% battlefield stickiness, lands rarely leave play
- 1149 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game
- 837 total casts logged across tracked games
First-cast turn
n=837The "good card" funnel
3813 brought · 1149 playersOf 3813 Reliquary Towers brought to games, 1061 were drawn, 837 of those were played, and the large majority remained on the battlefield through end of game.
Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=827) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2506).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=218) — 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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
1164 instancesMost Reliquary Towers finish on the battlefield, which is expected for a land with no sacrifice clause. The small graveyard count reflects board wipes and land destruction rather than any structural weakness.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
52 decks
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2
Ms. Bumbleflower
50 decks
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3
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
39 decks
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4
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
26 decks
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5
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
21 decks
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6
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
17 decks
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7
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
16 decks
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8
Krenko, Mob Boss
15 decks
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9
Zada, Hedron Grinder
14 decks
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10
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
13 decks
Draw-heavy commanders dominate the list, led by Zimone, Infinite Analyst. The spread across many different color identities confirms the Tower's role as a colorless staple rather than a deck-specific include.