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Serra Ascendant

· Creature — Human Monk · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

505

Decks Running

259

In Decks

1677

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Serra Ascendant

Creature — Human Monk

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

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Iconic Masters (IMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Howard Lyon

Final zone distribution

136 instances

2.9%

Library

44.1%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

14.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

505 brought · 230 players

Brought to game

505

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

107

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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 37% of the time (n=101) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=335).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=16) — 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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=107

22%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (24 / 107 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 74%

495 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.