Live Play Data

Verdant Command

· Instant · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

314

Decks Running

149

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

10%

13%

20%

33%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 13% (5 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

314 brought · 146 players

Brought to game

314

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=36) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=224).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +24.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

61 instances

9.8%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

62.3%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 48 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 33 decks
3 Witherbloom, the Balancer 19 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 15 decks
5 Camellia, the Seedmiser 8 decks
6 Riku of Many Paths 8 decks
7 Kudo, King Among Bears 3 decks
8 Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord 2 decks
9 The Odd Acorn Gang 2 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 2 decks

Card text

Verdant Command

Instant

Choose two — • Target player creates two tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. • Counter target loyalty ability of a planeswalker. • Exile target card from a graveyard. • Target player gains 3 life.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Poole

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.