Live Play Data

Basim Ibn Ishaq

· Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · Assassin's Creed (ACR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1022

Decks Running

405

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=203

19%

11%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 20% (39 / 203 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1022 brought · 352 players

Brought to game

1022

Ever drawn

227

Reached battlefield

186

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=180) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=695).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=37).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +4.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

247 instances

2.4%

Library

40.1%

Battlefield

38.1%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Basim Ibn Ishaq

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Assassin's Creed (ACR) · Rare · Illustrated by JB Casacop

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.