Live Play Data

Serra Ascendant

· Creature — Human Monk · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1536

Decks Running

678

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=332

24%

11%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 24% (80 / 332 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 69%

The "good card" funnel

1536 brought · 591 players

Brought to game

1536

Ever drawn

378

Reached battlefield

332

Still on board at game end

175

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=306) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=962).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=44).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

415 instances

2.2%

Library

42.2%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

13.5%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.