Live Play Data

Circle of Power

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

558

Decks Running

314

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=92

18%

46%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 13% (8 / 92 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

558 brought · 295 players

Brought to game

558

Ever drawn

138

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=76) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=42).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

151 instances

3.3%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

62.9%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 178 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 64 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 13 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 9 decks
5 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 8 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 6 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 6 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks
9 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 3 decks
10 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 2 decks

Card text

Circle of Power

Sorcery

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent." Wizards you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Josephine Chang

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.