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Black Mage's Rod

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

111

Decks Running

In Decks

482

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

26 instances

7.7%

Library

53.8%

Battlefield

7.7%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 31 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 15 decks
3 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 4 decks
4 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
5 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 2 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
8 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 2 decks
9 Bartolomé del Presidio 1 decks
10 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

111 brought · 68 players

Brought to game

111

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=19) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=77).

Observed gap +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +32.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.