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Will of the Abzan

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

191

Decks Running

115

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Will of the Abzan

Sorcery

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

Final zone distribution

38 instances

2.6%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

60.5%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 38 decks
2 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 10 decks
3 Doran, Besieged by Time 4 decks
4 Betor, Kin to All 3 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 3 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 2 decks
8 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
9 Kraven the Hunter 2 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

191 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

191

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=17) , vs 25% 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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

65%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 13% (2 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 9%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.