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Serra's Emissary

· Creature — Angel · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

233

Decks Running

116

In Decks

808

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Serra's Emissary

Creature — Angel

Flying As this creature enters, choose a card type. You and creatures you control have protection from the chosen card type.

7 / 7

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

Final zone distribution

61 instances

6.6%

Library

24.6%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 31 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 26 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 6 decks
4 Drana and Linvala 5 decks
5 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 5 decks
6 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
8 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel 3 decks
9 Sigarda, Font of Blessings 3 decks
10 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

233 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

233

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=34) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=155).

Observed gap +16.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +34.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

66%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 26

On curve 47% (7 / 38 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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.