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Selfless Squire

· Creature — Human Soldier · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

511

Decks Running

241

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

Selfless Squire

Creature — Human Soldier

Flash When this creature enters, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Whenever damage that would be dealt to you is prevented, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tony Foti

Final zone distribution

94 instances

1.1%

Library

35.1%

Battlefield

12.8%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 78 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 32 decks
3 Aragorn, King of Gondor 25 decks
4 Sonic the Hedgehog 17 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 9 decks
6 Myrel, Shield of Argive 6 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 4 decks
8 Monk Gyatso 4 decks
9 Brion Stoutarm 3 decks
10 Commander Mustard 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

511 brought · 222 players

Brought to game

511

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=37) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=31).

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 -5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +2.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

55%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 9% (3 / 47 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.