Live Play Data

Celes, Rune Knight

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Knight · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

502

Decks Running

200

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=173

13%

21%

18%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 36% (36 / 173 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

502 brought · 183 players

Brought to game

502

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

104

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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=90) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=281).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=28).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

174 instances

1.1%

Library

33.9%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Celes, Rune Knight

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Knight

When Celes enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one. Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if one or more of them entered from a graveyard or was cast from a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.