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Live Play Data

Dark Confidant

{1} {B} · Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1321
Decks Running
613
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=186
8%
T1
22%
T2
15%
T3
11%
T4
9%
T5
29%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16
On curve 30% (41 / 186 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1322 brought · 542 players
Brought to game
1322
Ever drawn
287
Reached battlefield
186
Still on board at game end
67

Once cast, 36% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=166) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=847).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=92).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

336 instances
3.9%
Library
19.9%
Battlefield
42.0%
Graveyard
11.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Dark Confidant card

Dark Confidant

{1} {B}
Creature — Human Wizard
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Immanuela Crovius

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.