Live Play Data

Thousand-Year Elixir

· Artifact · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1352

Decks Running

581

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=199

10%

20%

15%

18%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 31% (39 / 199 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1352 brought · 502 players

Brought to game

1352

Ever drawn

305

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

150

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=186) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=876).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=94).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

344 instances

2.6%

Library

43.6%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Thousand-Year Elixir

Artifact

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}

: Untap target creature.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Richard Sardinha

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.