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Thalia's Lancers

· Creature — Human Knight · Eldritch Moon (EMN)

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Times Brought

147

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

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

Final zone distribution

31 instances

38.7%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

25.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bruna, the Fading Light 20 decks
2 Gisela, the Broken Blade 16 decks
3 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 5 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 5 decks
5 Winota, Joiner of Forces 5 decks
6 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 3 decks
7 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 2 decks
8 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician 2 decks
9 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 2 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

147 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

147

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -19.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=15) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=82).

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 -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -19.5pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.