Temple Garden
Temple Garden sits in 38% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, and 82% of drawn copies are played before the game ends, with a median first-play turn of 3.
Temple Garden is a Selesnya dual land with a broad footprint on Playgroup Live. It appears in 303 of the 794 distinct decks that have played a tracked game, an inclusion rate of 38%. As a land that can enter untapped for 2 life, it earns its slot in any green-white or multicolor deck that touches those colors.
When Temple Garden reaches a player's hand, it reaches the battlefield 82% of the time. The median play turn is 3, which fits the early-game role players expect from a shock land. The 59% same-turn play rate confirms that players rarely hold it once they have it. Data is spread across 248 distinct players, with no single contributor accounting for more than a small fraction of instances, a healthy sign for the reliability of these early numbers.
Temple Garden is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and most other sanctioned formats. It is not legal in Pauper or Pauper Commander, consistent with its rare rarity. Across the commander distribution on Playgroup Live, it clusters in five-color and Naya-range decks where green and white both feature heavily.
- 38% of tracked Commander decks include Temple Garden
- 82% of drawn copies are played before the game ends
- T3 median first-play turn
- 59% of drawn copies played on the same turn they were drawn
- 91% battlefield stickiness once played
- 248 distinct players have brought Temple Garden to a tracked game
First-cast turn
n=137The "good card" funnel
542 brought · 248 playersOf 542 copies brought to games, 167 were drawn, 137 of those were played, and most stayed on the battlefield through end of game.
Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=136) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=349).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=26) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
178 instancesThe vast majority of Temple Garden copies that are played end the game on the battlefield, consistent with lands being near-permanent fixtures once they resolve.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Ur-Dragon
16 decks
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2
Ms. Bumbleflower
12 decks
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3
Aragorn, the Uniter
8 decks
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4
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
8 decks
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5
Baylen, the Haymaker
7 decks
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6
Kenrith, the Returned King
7 decks
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7
Tom Bombadil
7 decks
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8
Ashling, the Limitless
6 decks
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9
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
6 decks
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10
Jodah, the Unifier
6 decks
The commander list spans five-color and Naya-range commanders, confirming Temple Garden's role as a broad green-white fixer rather than a card tied to one archetype.
How often is Temple Garden drawn in a Commander game? ▾
Across 459 tracked multiplayer games where Temple Garden was in the deck, it was drawn 31% of the time. That is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 167 copies that reached a player's hand, 82% were played before the game concluded.
What turn does Temple Garden usually get played? ▾
The median first-play turn is 3, with the mode landing on turn 1, reflecting copies kept in opening hands. The distribution runs from turn 1 through turn 13, with the interquartile range sitting between turns 1 and 6. Most copies that hit the table arrive early, which is exactly the role a shock land is built for.
Does playing Temple Garden improve your chances of winning? ▾
In 136 tracked participations where Temple Garden was played, the normalized win rate was 24%. In 349 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate was 26%. The difference is small and the confidence interval overlaps zero, so treat this as directional at best. A land's contribution to winning is embedded in the overall mana base, not easily isolated from a single card.
Is Temple Garden legal in Commander? ▾
Yes. Temple Garden is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, and most other sanctioned formats. It is not legal in Pauper or Pauper Commander due to its rare rarity, and it is not legal in Old School or Premodern.
Which commanders most often run Temple Garden? ▾
On Playgroup Live, The Ur-Dragon leads the list with 15 decks, followed by Ms. Bumbleflower with 10. Most other entries are five-color, Naya (RGW), or Bant (GUW) commanders. The spread across the top 10 commanders is fairly even, which reflects Temple Garden's role as a generic green-white fixer rather than a card tied to any single strategy.
How reliable are these Temple Garden statistics? ▾
The dataset covers 459 tracked multiplayer Commander games and 248 distinct players. No single player accounts for more than a small share of total instances, which is a positive sign for data spread. Playgroup Live's dataset is smaller than large-scale decklist scrapes, so all figures here are best read as consistent early signals rather than definitive benchmarks. Win-rate deltas in particular carry wide confidence intervals at this sample size.