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Selvala, Explorer Returned

· Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

144

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

Selvala, Explorer Returned

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout

Parley —

: Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, add {G}

and you gain 1 life. Then each player draws a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson

Final zone distribution

38 instances

55.3%

Battlefield

18.4%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

21.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

144 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

144

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=21) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=86).

Observed gap +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

12%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 24% (4 / 25 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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.