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Silverback Elder

· Creature — Ape Shaman · Dominaria United (DMU)

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Times Brought

417

Decks Running

233

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

79 instances

3.8%

Library

46.8%

Battlefield

16.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

417 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

417

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=42) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=244).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=17).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

21%

17%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 49% (9 / 53 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.