The Council of Four
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
The Council of Four
Final zone distribution
75 instancesCommanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Whtz, the Bibliophile
19 decks
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2
Bard, King of Dale
16 decks
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3
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
14 decks
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4
Ms. Bumbleflower
11 decks
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5
Aragorn, King of Gondor
7 decks
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6
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
7 decks
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7
Hope Estheim
7 decks
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8
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
7 decks
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9
The Second Doctor
7 decks
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10
Alphinaud Leveilleur
5 decks
The "good card" funnel
352 brought · 178 playersOnce cast, 62% 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.
Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=27) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=222).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=25).
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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.