Live Play Data

Blue Mage's Cane

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

292

Decks Running

164

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

14%

43%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 8% (3 / 51 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

292 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

292

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=43) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=176).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=17).

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 -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.4pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

5.1%

Library

44.9%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 139 decks
2 The Destined Warrior 5 decks
3 Alisaie Leveilleur 3 decks
4 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 3 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
6 Alphinaud Leveilleur 2 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
8 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 1 decks
9 Charix, the Raging Isle 1 decks
10 Golbez, Crystal Collector 1 decks

Card text

Blue Mage's Cane

Artifact — Equipment

Job select Equipped creature gets +0/+2, is a Wizard in addition to its other types, and has "Whenever this creature attacks, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from defending player's graveyard. If you do, copy it. You may cast the copy by paying {3}

rather than paying its mana cost." Spirit of the Whalaqee — Equip {2}

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Eglė Mosakaitė

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.