Live Play Data

Unexpected Assistance

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

145

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

26%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 30% (6 / 23 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

145 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

145

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=22) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=89).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

4.9%

Library

56.1%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

34.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 15 decks
2 Namor the Sub-Mariner 9 decks
3 Kasla, the Broken Halo 5 decks
4 Aragorn, the Uniter 4 decks
5 Saint Traft and Rem Karolus 4 decks
6 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 3 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
8 Bard, King of Dale 2 decks
9 Captain America, Living Legend 2 decks
10 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 2 decks

Card text

Unexpected Assistance

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1}

or one mana of that creature's color.) Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Common · Illustrated by Gustavo Pelissari

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.