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Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

· Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

846

Decks Running

449

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.

Final zone distribution

197 instances

3.0%

Library

54.8%

Battlefield

19.8%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ashling, the Limitless 46 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 27 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 17 decks
4 Voja, Jaws of the Conclave 17 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 14 decks
6 Zaxara, the Exemplary 14 decks
7 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 11 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 8 decks
9 Kona, Rescue Beastie 8 decks
10 Omnath, Locus of Mana 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

854 brought · 376 players

Brought to game

854

Ever drawn

188

Reached battlefield

147

Still on board at game end

108

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=125) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=512).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=36) — 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 -0.1pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=147

15%

12%

16%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 27% (22 / 147 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

995 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.