Live Play Data

Youthful Valkyrie

· Creature — Angel · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1168

Decks Running

557

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=218

19%

29%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 23% (42 / 218 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

1168 brought · 507 players

Brought to game

1168

Ever drawn

266

Reached battlefield

218

Still on board at game end

116

Once cast, 53% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=199) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=759).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=39).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

287 instances

3.1%

Library

40.4%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Youthful Valkyrie

Creature — Angel

Flying Whenever another Angel you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.