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Bugenhagen, Wise Elder

· Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

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Times Brought

623

Decks Running

277

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

Bugenhagen, Wise Elder

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Reach At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, draw a card. {T}

: Add one mana of any color.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Racrufi

Final zone distribution

140 instances

2.1%

Library

50.7%

Battlefield

24.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 159 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 11 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 10 decks
4 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 6 decks
5 Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant 6 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 4 decks
7 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 4 decks
8 Maular, the Next Evolution 4 decks
9 Tifa, Martial Artist 4 decks
10 Radagast of Rhosgobel 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

623 brought · 262 players

Brought to game

623

Ever drawn

136

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=85) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=366).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=21).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=111

14%

17%

13%

10%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 32% (19 / 111 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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.