Live Play Data

Trystan's Command

· Kindred Sorcery — Elf · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

182

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

82%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 27% (3 / 22 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

182 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

182

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -19.4pp

Players who cast this card win 10% of the time (n=22) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=118).

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 -6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -19.4pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

48.9%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

34.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 22 decks
2 Thranduil, the Elvenking 22 decks
3 High Perfect Morcant 17 decks
4 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 15 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 4 decks
6 Tyvar the Bellicose 3 decks
7 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 2 decks
8 Doran, Besieged by Time 2 decks
9 Giada, Font of Hope 1 decks
10 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest 1 decks

Card text

Trystan's Command

Kindred Sorcery — Elf

Choose two — • Create a token that's a copy of target Elf you control. • Return one or two target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. • Destroy target creature or enchantment. • Creatures target player controls get +3/+3 until end of turn. Untap them.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Rare · Illustrated by Sam Guay

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.