Live Play Data

Black Mage's Rod

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

304

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

18%

10%

16%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 22% (9 / 49 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

304 brought · 171 players

Brought to game

304

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -11.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=45) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=207).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=15).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.1pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

4.2%

Library

52.8%

Battlefield

13.9%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 67 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 30 decks
3 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 13 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 6 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 5 decks
7 The Destined Warrior 4 decks
8 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 3 decks
9 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks
10 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 3 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.