Live Play Data

Thalia's Lancers

· Creature — Human Knight · Eldritch Moon (EMN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

329

Decks Running

121

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

61%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 20% (4 / 51 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

329 brought · 107 players

Brought to game

329

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=40) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=184).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=15).

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 +16.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

37.2%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

25.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisela, the Broken Blade 23 decks
2 Bruna, the Fading Light 18 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 11 decks
4 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 6 decks
5 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 5 decks
6 Winota, Joiner of Forces 4 decks
7 Brago, King Eternal 3 decks
8 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 3 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
10 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace 2 decks

Card text

Thalia's Lancers

Creature — Human Knight

First strike When this creature enters, you may search your library for a legendary card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

4 / 4

Eldritch Moon (EMN) · Rare · Illustrated by David Palumbo

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.