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Will of the Abzan

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

193

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

70 instances

1.4%

Library

5.7%

Battlefield

57.1%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 63 decks
2 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 18 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
4 Betor, Kin to All 6 decks
5 Doran, Besieged by Time 6 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
7 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
8 Raffine, Scheming Seer 3 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 181 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=31) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=214).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=17).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

63%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 20% (5 / 41 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.