Live Play Data

Valorous Stance

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1592

Decks Running

777

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=222

11%

56%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 0% (0 / 222 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

1596 brought · 702 players

Brought to game

1596

Ever drawn

344

Reached battlefield

222

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=202) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1006).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=100).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

391 instances

1.5%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

59.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 226 decks
2 T'Challa, the Black Panther 191 decks
3 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 79 decks
4 Yuma, Proud Protector 19 decks
5 Worf, Defiant Commander 18 decks
6 Feather, the Redeemed 11 decks
7 Galea, Kindler of Hope 9 decks
8 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 8 decks
9 Wyleth, Soul of Steel 7 decks
10 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks

Card text

Valorous Stance

Instant

Choose one — • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.) • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.