Live Play Data

Serra's Emissary

· Creature — Angel · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

147

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

14%

57%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 26

On curve 54% (9 / 63 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=54) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=232).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=15).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.3pp to +35.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances

4.3%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 42 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 31 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 7 decks
4 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 7 decks
5 Mayael the Anima 6 decks
6 Drana and Linvala 5 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
9 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel 3 decks
10 Seluma, Light of Aysen 3 decks

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.

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

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.