Live Play Data

Black Mage's Rod

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

544

Decks Running

298

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=93

17%

12%

14%

12%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 22% (16 / 93 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

544 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

544

Ever drawn

122

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=86) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=361).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=24).

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 -3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

138 instances

3.6%

Library

49.3%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 114 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 42 decks
3 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 21 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 13 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 9 decks
7 The Destined Warrior 7 decks
8 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 6 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
10 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 4 decks

Card text

Black Mage's Rod

Artifact — Equipment

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+0, has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent," and is a Wizard in addition to its other types. Equip {3}

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Nino Is

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.