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Skycat Sovereign

{W} {U} · Creature — Elemental Cat · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
Times Brought
156
Decks Running
86
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Skycat Sovereign card

Skycat Sovereign

{W} {U}
Creature — Elemental Cat
Flying This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with flying. {2}{W}{U}: Create a 1/1 white Cat Bird creature token with flying.
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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

Final zone distribution

33 instances
6.1%
Library
48.5%
Battlefield
30.3%
Graveyard
3.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 82 players
Brought to game
157
Ever drawn
31
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -11.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=21) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=99).

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 +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -11.1pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25
0%
T1
32%
T2
16%
T3
16%
T4
8%
T5
28%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 7
On curve 32% (8 / 25 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.