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Sylvan Safekeeper

{G} · Creature — Human Wizard · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
Times Brought
1147
Decks Running
515
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.

Card text
Sylvan Safekeeper card

Sylvan Safekeeper

{G}
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

Final zone distribution

271 instances
4.4%
Library
40.6%
Battlefield
28.8%
Graveyard
5.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1148 brought · 431 players
Brought to game
1148
Ever drawn
229
Reached battlefield
154
Still on board at game end
110

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=119) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=644).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=53).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=154
18%
T1
11%
T2
8%
T3
12%
T4
9%
T5
37%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 4.5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 18% (28 / 154 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

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.