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Somberwald Sage

· Creature — Human Druid · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

186

Decks Running

In Decks

723

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Somberwald Sage

Creature — Human Druid

: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

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Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Steve Argyle

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

47.1%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Maelstrom Wanderer 11 decks
2 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 11 decks
3 Xenagos, God of Revels 6 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 5 decks
5 Kyler, Sigardian Emissary 5 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 3 decks
7 Eshki, Temur's Roar 3 decks
8 Leinore, Autumn Sovereign 3 decks
9 Sigarda, Font of Blessings 3 decks
10 The Ur-Dragon 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

186

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=35) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=110).

Observed gap +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -11.6pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

20%

28%

18%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 48% (11 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.