Live Play Data

Circle of Power

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

949

Decks Running

505

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=163

11%

17%

48%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 15% (18 / 163 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

949 brought · 458 players

Brought to game

949

Ever drawn

241

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=135) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=581).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=69).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances

2.2%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

62.6%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 274 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 110 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 22 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 14 decks
5 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 13 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 9 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 7 decks
8 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 4 decks
9 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 4 decks
10 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 3 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 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.