Commander

Alela, Artful Provocateur

Global commander stats

All Esper commanders

1329 Wins

3286 Losses

Overview

Summary

Alela, Artful Provocateur is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 4,645 recorded Playgroup games, winning 28% of them (1329–3286) at an Elo of 1,470, ranking #4557 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 226604 damage dealt and 0.56 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 11 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Alela, Artful Provocateur's win rate?

Alela, Artful Provocateur has a 28% win rate across 4645 recorded Playgroup games (1329 wins, 3286 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: 3 months.

How many decks use Alela, Artful Provocateur?

1,325 decks list Alela, Artful Provocateur as their commander on Playgroup, of which 765 have played at least one recorded game.

Alela, Artful Provocateur Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

4557

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1470

Trend

Global Elo trend

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Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 226604

Average commander damage per game 4

Average poison counters given per game 2

Average kills per game 0.56

Average turn length 4 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1325

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 765

No. games played with this commander 4645

Total hours played 3 months

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1602	Vaarq	6	4	80 %
2	1599	Alyx	33	10	30 %
3	1580	Data Priest	52	22	42 %
4	1577	Chaos Chris	11	4	36 %
5	1570	FOURDimensional	2	2	100 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Alela, Artful Provocateur wins, 77.07% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

77.07%

Commander Damage

9.92%

Non Combat Damage

5.27%

Alternative

4.44%

Combo

2.79%

Mill

0.41%

Poison

0.1%

Avg win turn 9.7 based on 1359 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.

+5.3 pp

Top card: Zur the Enchanter

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Zur the Enchanter 115 games	+5.3 pp	115
2	Lofty Denial Signature build 59 games · Signature build	+4.4 pp	59
3	Arcane Signet 510 games	+3.7 pp	510
4	Vault of the Archangel 144 games	+2.6 pp	144
5	Flawless Maneuver 79 games	+1.6 pp	79
6	Reconnaissance Mission 196 games	+1.2 pp	196
7	Hall of Heliod's Generosity 117 games	+1.0 pp	117
8	Supreme Verdict 78 games	+0.9 pp	78
9	Ghostly Prison 258 games	+0.1 pp	258

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 35.13% of games from position 1 and 15.63% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

35.13% n=1352

Seat 2

30.59% n=1396

Seat 3

24.25% n=1107

Seat 4

20.39% n=667

Seat 5

15.63% n=96

Seat 6

33.33% n=12

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Alela, Artful Provocateur wins 30.43% after 0 mulligans and 16.67% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

30.43% n=2208

1 mulligan

24.08% n=731

2 mulligans

24.69% n=239

3 mulligans

11.32% n=53

4 mulligans

41.67% n=12

5 mulligans

16.67% n=6

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Alela, Artful Provocateur 3.65/5 on average, across 3118 self-reports.

3.65 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Alela, Artful Provocateur wins, opponents flag the game as salty 33.1% of the time across 1367 tracked wins.

33.1 \%

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.