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Sylvan Library

· Enchantment · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

1297

Decks Running

689

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

Sylvan Library

Enchantment

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Final zone distribution

281 instances

2.5%

Library

54.4%

Battlefield

13.5%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 26 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 22 decks
3 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 20 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 15 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 14 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 13 decks
8 Thranduil, the Elvenking 13 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 11 decks
10 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1299 brought · 518 players

Brought to game

1299

Ever drawn

258

Reached battlefield

179

Still on board at game end

153

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=145) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=800).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=59).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +3.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=179

15%

20%

14%

13%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 34% (35 / 179 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.