Live Play Data

Cornered by Black Mages

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

507

Decks Running

273

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77

13%

10%

16%

49%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 13% (10 / 77 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

507 brought · 246 players

Brought to game

507

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=71) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=335).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=30).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

122 instances

4.1%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

62.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 105 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 49 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 17 decks
4 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 14 decks
5 Black Waltz No. 3 8 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
7 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 4 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
9 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 3 decks
10 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 3 decks

Card text

Cornered by Black Mages

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Smirtouille

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.