Live Play Data

Serra Ascendant

· Creature — Human Monk · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2259

Decks Running

883

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=493

27%

12%

10%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 27% (135 / 493 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 70%

The "good card" funnel

2259 brought · 756 players

Brought to game

2259

Ever drawn

567

Reached battlefield

493

Still on board at game end

252

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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=445) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1393).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=69).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

614 instances

2.0%

Library

41.0%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.