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Serra Ascendant

· Creature — Human Monk · Iconic Masters (IMA)

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Times Brought

682

Decks Running

338

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

141 instances

2.8%

Library

60.3%

Battlefield

19.9%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

682 brought · 294 players

Brought to game

682

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=88) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=404).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=118

37%

11%

13%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 22

On curve 37% (44 / 118 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 84%

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.