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Cornered by Black Mages

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

130

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

67.3%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 43 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 32 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
4 Black Waltz No. 3 6 decks
5 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 5 decks
6 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 3 decks
7 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 2 decks
8 Saruman, the White Hand 2 decks
9 Silverquill, the Disputant 2 decks
10 Terra, Herald of Hope 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 122 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=32) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=184).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

20%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 17% (4 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.