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Black Mage's Rod

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

111

In Decks

663

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

43 instances

4.7%

Library

55.8%

Battlefield

16.3%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 45 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 23 decks
3 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 7 decks
4 Black Waltz No. 3 5 decks
5 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 3 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks
7 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 3 decks
8 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 2 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 The Destined Black Mage 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=31) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=126).

Observed gap +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

19%

22%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 25% (6 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.