Live Play Data

Talisman of Hierarchy

· Artifact · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

28%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5173

Decks Running

2511

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=966

12%

23%

12%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 35% (227 / 966 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

5180 brought · 1870 players

Brought to game

5180

Ever drawn

1265

Reached battlefield

966

Still on board at game end

774

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=870) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3257).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=258).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1390 instances

2.0%

Library

55.7%

Battlefield

20.9%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 323 decks
2 Killian, Decisive Mentor 128 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 95 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 92 decks
5 Edgar Markov 84 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 63 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 62 decks
8 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 57 decks
9 Teysa Karlov 52 decks
10 Zurgo Stormrender 51 decks

Card text

Talisman of Hierarchy

Artifact

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.