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Royal Warden

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

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Times Brought

151

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

Royal Warden

Artifact Creature — Necron

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

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: 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

Final zone distribution

38 instances

39.5%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

21.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

151 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

151

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=21) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=80).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

19%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 27% (5 / 26 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.