Live Play Data

Royal Warden

· Artifact Creature — Necron · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

191

Decks Running

101

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

68%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 21% (3 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

191 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

191

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 21% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=24) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=123).

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 +17.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +37.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

2.0%

Library

12.2%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

32.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Royal Warden

Artifact Creature — Necron

Phalanx Commander — When this creature enters, create two tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens. Unearth {3}

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Artur Nakhodkin

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.