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Scholar of New Horizons

· Creature — Human Scout · The Brothers' War Commander (BRC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

294

Decks Running

169

In Decks

1187

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Scholar of New Horizons

Creature — Human Scout

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}

, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.

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The Brothers' War Commander (BRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

73 instances

2.7%

Library

27.4%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 62 decks
2 Tom Bombadil 28 decks
3 Yuna, Grand Summoner 10 decks
4 Yuna, Hope of Spira 5 decks
5 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 4 decks
6 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
7 Aerith Gainsborough 2 decks
8 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 2 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
10 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

295 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

295

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=38) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=190).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=18) — 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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=43

21%

16%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 26% (9 / 43 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

43 of 100 times cast 43%

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

Frequently Asked

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.