Live Play Data

Thraben Watcher

· Creature — Angel · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

700

Decks Running

361

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=101

13%

22%

11%

34%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 38% (22 / 101 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

700 brought · 346 players

Brought to game

700

Ever drawn

131

Reached battlefield

101

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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=91) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=460).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=28).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

146 instances

1.4%

Library

32.2%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Thraben Watcher

Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance Other nontoken creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

2 / 2

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.