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Black Mage's Rod

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

142

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

62 instances

3.2%

Library

59.7%

Battlefield

9.7%

Graveyard

1.6%

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 26 decks
3 Black Waltz No. 3 7 decks
4 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 6 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
7 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 4 decks
8 The Destined Warrior 4 decks
9 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 3 decks
10 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -15.5pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=35) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=173).

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 -6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -15.5pp to +2.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

15%

12%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 24

On curve 20% (5 / 41 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.