Live Play Data

Sterling Grove

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1126

Decks Running

523

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=204

10%

13%

15%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 13% (21 / 204 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

1126 brought · 468 players

Brought to game

1126

Ever drawn

288

Reached battlefield

204

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=189) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=717).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=69).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

311 instances

4.8%

Library

32.5%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 60 decks
2 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 59 decks
3 Sythis, Harvest's Hand 38 decks
4 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 28 decks
5 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 28 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 27 decks
7 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 24 decks
8 Marina Vendrell 18 decks
9 Yuna, Hope of Spira 17 decks
10 Uril, the Miststalker 16 decks

Card text

Sterling Grove

Enchantment

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) {1}

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.