Live Play Data

Seraph of the Sword

· Creature — Angel · Magic 2014 (M14)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

415

Decks Running

207

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=73

15%

19%

15%

38%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 37% (14 / 73 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

415 brought · 201 players

Brought to game

415

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=64) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=275).

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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.4pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

1.0%

Library

38.5%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 189 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 3 decks
3 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 2 decks
4 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 1 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
6 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight 1 decks
7 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 1 decks
8 Jenara, Asura of War 1 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 1 decks
10 Lyra Dawnbringer 1 decks

Card text

Seraph of the Sword

Creature — Angel

Flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.

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Magic 2014 (M14) · Rare · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.