Live Play Data

Sanctuary Warden

· Creature — Angel Soldier · Streets of New Capenna (SNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

222

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

22%

67%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 48% (6 / 27 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

222

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=24) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=17).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

1.9%

Library

23.1%

Battlefield

36.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 59 decks
2 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 10 decks
3 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 3 decks
4 Kastral, the Windcrested 2 decks
5 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year 1 decks
6 Bruna, the Fading Light 1 decks
7 Durnan of the Yawning Portal 1 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 1 decks
9 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 1 decks
10 Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance 1 decks

Card text

Sanctuary Warden

Creature — Angel Soldier

Flying This creature enters with two shield counters on it. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may remove a counter from a creature or planeswalker you control. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

5 / 5

Streets of New Capenna (SNC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Johannes Voss

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.