Commander

Alela, Artful Provocateur

Global commander stats

All Esper commanders

1195 Wins

2920 Losses

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Overview

Summary

Alela, Artful Provocateur is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 4,117 recorded Playgroup games, winning 29% of them (1195–2920) at an Elo of 1,500, ranking #1954 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 5 damage dealt and 0.57 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 2 Aug 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Alela, Artful Provocateur's win rate?

Alela, Artful Provocateur has a 29% win rate across 4117 recorded Playgroup games (1195 wins, 2920 losses).

How long do winning games with Alela, Artful Provocateur take?

Wins with Alela, Artful Provocateur take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: about 2 months.

How many decks use Alela, Artful Provocateur?

1,141 decks list Alela, Artful Provocateur as their commander on Playgroup, of which 655 have played at least one recorded game.

Alela, Artful Provocateur Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1954

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1500

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 5

Average commander damage per game 4

Average poison counters given per game 2

Average kills per game 0.57

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1141

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 655

No. games played with this commander 4117

Total hours played about 2 months

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1599	Alyx	33	10	30 %
2	1593	DCW3	28	12	43 %
3	1580	Data Priest	52	22	42 %
4	1577	Chaos Chris	11	4	36 %
5	1557	Cidalmi Mozart	22	8	36 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Alela, Artful Provocateur wins, 77.02% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

77.02%

Commander Damage

10.05%

Non Combat Damage

5.31%

Alternative

4.16%

Combo

2.89%

Mill

0.46%

Poison

0.12%

Avg win turn 9.8 based on 1233 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Alela, Artful Provocateur

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Alela, Artful Provocateur decks that leave them out.

+3.9 pp

Top card: Swiftfoot Boots

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Swiftfoot Boots 151 games	+3.9 pp	151
2	Watery Grave 238 games	+2.6 pp	238
3	Glacial Fortress 170 games	+1.9 pp	170
4	Vault of the Archangel 120 games	+1.8 pp	120
5	Ghostly Prison 192 games	+1.3 pp	192
6	Cyclonic Rift 137 games	+0.7 pp	137
7	Supreme Verdict 45 games	+0.7 pp	45

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Alela, Artful Provocateur wins 36.36% of games from position 6 and 14.77% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

35.54% n=1207

Seat 2

31.54% n=1224

Seat 3

24.67% n=973

Seat 4

20.13% n=601

Seat 5

14.77% n=88

Seat 6

36.36% n=11

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Alela, Artful Provocateur wins 30.99% after 0 mulligans and 25.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

30.99% n=2081

1 mulligan

24.53% n=636

2 mulligans

24.62% n=199

3 mulligans

13.04% n=46

4 mulligans

37.5% n=8

5 mulligans

25.0% n=4

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Alela, Artful Provocateur 3.64/5 on average, across 2827 self-reports.

3.64 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Alela, Artful Provocateur wins, opponents flag the game as salty 67.0% of the time across 1233 tracked wins.

67.0 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Alela, Artful Provocateur. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.