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Roil Elemental

· Creature — Elemental · Zendikar (ZEN)

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Times Brought

141

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Roil Elemental

Creature — Elemental

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

3 / 2

Zendikar (ZEN) · Rare · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

Final zone distribution

37 instances

8.1%

Library

27.0%

Battlefield

21.6%

Graveyard

43.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 7 decks
2 Omnath, Locus of Creation 7 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 5 decks
4 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle 5 decks
5 Yarok, the Desecrated 3 decks
6 Ashling, the Limitless 2 decks
7 Galadriel of Lothlórien 2 decks
8 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe 2 decks
9 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 2 decks
10 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

142 brought · 48 players

Brought to game

142

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=15) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=81).

Observed gap +22.4pp; 95% confidence interval +10.8pp to +34.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

17 of 100 times cast 17%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.