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Circle of Power

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

418

Decks Running

222

In Decks

1183

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

111 instances

3.6%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

64.9%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 132 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 45 decks
3 Witherbloom, the Balancer 8 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
5 Black Waltz No. 3 5 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 5 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 4 decks
8 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 2 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 2 decks
10 The Destined Black Mage 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

418 brought · 208 players

Brought to game

418

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=61) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=266).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +16.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.9pp to +28.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71

11%

20%

44%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 15% (8 / 71 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

71 of 100 times cast 71%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.