Live Play Data

Serra the Benevolent

· Legendary Planeswalker — Serra · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

213

Decks Running

109

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

15%

12%

47%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 26% (5 / 34 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

213

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=31) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (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 +22.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +39.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Serra the Benevolent

Legendary Planeswalker — Serra

+2: Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn. −3: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance. −6: You get an emblem with "If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead."

Loyalty 4

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.