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The Council of Four

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

136

In Decks

997

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

The Council of Four

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Justine Cruz

Final zone distribution

92 instances

3.3%

Library

23.9%

Battlefield

28.3%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ms. Bumbleflower 17 decks
2 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 14 decks
3 Bard, King of Dale 9 decks
4 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 8 decks
5 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher 6 decks
6 The Council of Four 6 decks
7 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 5 decks
8 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 5 decks
9 The Second Doctor 5 decks
10 Aragorn, King of Gondor 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=34) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=133).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=35) — 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.

Observed gap +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

61%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 22% (3 / 36 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.