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Silverback Elder

· Creature — Ape Shaman · Dominaria United (DMU)

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Times Brought

135

Decks Running

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

Silverback Elder

Creature — Ape Shaman

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

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Dominaria United (DMU) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

Final zone distribution

31 instances

6.5%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

19.4%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

135 brought · 68 players

Brought to game

135

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=18) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=90).

Observed gap -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -13.1pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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.