Live Play Data

Serra Ascendant

· Creature — Human Monk · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

965

Decks Running

459

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=213

25%

10%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 25% (54 / 213 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 70%

The "good card" funnel

965 brought · 405 players

Brought to game

965

Ever drawn

242

Reached battlefield

213

Still on board at game end

114

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=199) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=608).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=26).

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 +2.0pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

268 instances

2.6%

Library

42.5%

Battlefield

28.7%

Graveyard

15.3%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.