Commander

Killian, Decisive Mentor

Global commander stats

All Orzhov commanders Featured in Secrets of Strixhaven

1294 Wins

3569 Losses

Archetype profile

How Killian, Decisive Mentor plays

Top 2% for voltron, top 2% for politics, and top 3% for enchantress.

705 decks from 644 players. Mostly Human creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Top 2% +3.7

Group hug Top 6% +2.8

Stax and control Top 8% -0.1

Group slug Below average -1.9

How your creatures win

Big creatures Below average -1.4

Fight for the board Top 43% -0.0

Tokens Below average -3.7

Tribal Below average Human, 6.9

Voltron Top 2% +26.6

+1/+1 counters Below average -1.7

Aristocrats Below average -4.9

Blink Below average -0.8

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Below average -3.5

Graveyard and reanimator Top 41% -0.1

Landfall Top 32% +0.1

Artifacts Below average -7.1

Enchantress Top 3% +2.6

Mill Below average -0.4

Lifegain Below average -3.2

Bars show where this commander sits among every profiled commander, the tick is the middle. The number is extra cards of that archetype per deck against the average deck in the same colors; tribal shows the main creature type and its count per deck.

Measured in tracked games

Spells cast per opponent's turn 0.05 Average 0.07, from 350 games.

Tokens created per game 29.6 Average 11.7, from 350 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 5.0 Average 4.0, from 3416 games.

Commanders that play like Killian, Decisive Mentor

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Zur the Enchanter Enchantress top 2% and Voltron top 8%

Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser Politics top 1% and Group hug top 3%

Eriette of the Charmed Apple Voltron top 2% and Politics top 6%

Queen Marchesa Politics top 1% and Group hug top 3%

Measured weekly from full decklists and tracked games. How we measure

Overview

Summary

Killian, Decisive Mentor is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 4,955 recorded Playgroup games, winning 26% of them (1294–3569) at an Elo of 1,524, ranking #1616 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 156980 damage dealt and 0.46 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 10 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Killian, Decisive Mentor's win rate?

Killian, Decisive Mentor has a 26% win rate across 4955 recorded Playgroup games (1294 wins, 3569 losses).

How long do winning games with Killian, Decisive Mentor take?

Wins with Killian, Decisive Mentor take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: 3 months.

How many decks use Killian, Decisive Mentor?

1,893 decks list Killian, Decisive Mentor as their commander on Playgroup, of which 1,433 have played at least one recorded game.

Killian, Decisive Mentor Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1616

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1524

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Global Elo trend

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Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 156980

Average commander damage per game 5

Average poison counters given per game 9

Average kills per game 0.46

Average turn length 3 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1893

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 1433

No. games played with this commander 4955

Total hours played 3 months

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1650	Aquilagryphon	48	19	42 %
2	1608	Robot	11	6	60 %
3	1599	Alex	6	4	67 %
4	1589	Bobbi_Wasabi	7	4	57 %
5	1582	shakenuk	19	6	35 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Killian, Decisive Mentor wins, 76.0% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

76.0%

Commander Damage

11.43%

Non Combat Damage

7.2%

Alternative

4.34%

Combo

0.46%

Poison

0.46%

Mill

0.11%

Avg win turn 9.7 based on 1311 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Killian, Decisive Mentor

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Killian, Decisive Mentor decks that leave them out.

+5.8 pp

Top card: Sigil of the Empty Throne

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Sigil of the Empty Throne 234 games	+5.8 pp	234
2	Ghostly Dancers 151 games	+5.4 pp	151
3	Mesa Enchantress 328 games	+4.8 pp	328
4	Retether 243 games	+4.4 pp	243
5	Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel 207 games	+4.2 pp	207
6	Hall of Heliod's Generosity 225 games	+3.2 pp	225
7	Kaya's Ghostform 255 games	+3.2 pp	255
8	Ethereal Armor 390 games	+3.0 pp	390
9	All That Glitters 390 games	+2.8 pp	390
10	Tempest Technique 201 games	+2.6 pp	201

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#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Eye of Nidhogg 376 games	+2.4 pp	376
12	Feather of Flight 157 games	+2.3 pp	157
13	Godless Shrine 229 games	+1.3 pp	229
14	Vault of Champions 152 games	+1.2 pp	152
15	Restoration Magic 42 games	+1.2 pp	42

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?

Killian, Decisive Mentor wins 31.93% of games from position 1 and 5.88% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

31.93% n=1375

Seat 2

26.19% n=1409

Seat 3

25.16% n=1228

Seat 4

20.05% n=848

Seat 5

13.56% n=118

Seat 6

5.88% n=17

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Killian, Decisive Mentor wins 25.69% after 0 mulligans and 50.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

25.69% n=1526

1 mulligan

26.04% n=841

2 mulligans

23.56% n=208

3 mulligans

13.73% n=51

4 mulligans

8.33% n=12

5 mulligans

0.0% n=1

6 mulligans

50.0% n=2

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Killian, Decisive Mentor 3.71/5 on average, across 3487 self-reports.

3.71 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Killian, Decisive Mentor wins, opponents flag the game as salty 38.0% of the time across 1321 tracked wins.

38.0 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

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