Live Play Data

Black Waltz No. 3

· Legendary Creature — Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

161

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

24%

14%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 24% (5 / 21 cast on T4)

The "good card" funnel

161 brought · 87 players

Brought to game

161

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=17) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=106).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -13.5pp to +32.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

35.9%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 46 decks
2 Black Waltz No. 3 7 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
4 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 6 decks
5 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 5 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 4 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
8 Saruman, the White Hand 2 decks
9 Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant 1 decks
10 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker 1 decks

Card text

Black Waltz No. 3

Legendary Creature — Wizard

Flying, deathtouch Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Black Waltz No. 3 deals 2 damage to each opponent.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lordigan

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.