Live Play Data

Timely Ward

· Enchantment — Aura · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

685

Decks Running

326

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=103

14%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 8% (5 / 103 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

685 brought · 312 players

Brought to game

685

Ever drawn

173

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=92) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=421).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=64).

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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +13.3pp to +33.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

186 instances

1.6%

Library

29.6%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Timely Ward

Enchantment — Aura

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if it targets a commander. Enchant creature Enchanted creature has indestructible.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.