Live Play Data

Sylvan Safekeeper

· Creature — Human Wizard · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2161

Decks Running

946

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=360

13%

10%

11%

13%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 13% (48 / 360 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

2161 brought · 798 players

Brought to game

2161

Ever drawn

513

Reached battlefield

360

Still on board at game end

217

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.

≥ +9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=328) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=1351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=134).

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 +14.6pp; 95% confidence interval +9.2pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

617 instances

3.9%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

33.9%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sylvan Safekeeper

Creature — Human Wizard

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.