Live Play Data

Dark Confidant

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

996

Decks Running

483

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

25%

15%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 33% (34 / 137 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

997 brought · 427 players

Brought to game

997

Ever drawn

212

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=123) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=645).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=73).

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 +13.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

249 instances

4.0%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 33 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 29 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 20 decks
4 Mister Negative 18 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 14 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 14 decks
7 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 12 decks
8 Rowan, Scion of War 12 decks
9 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 9 decks
10 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 9 decks

Card text

Dark Confidant

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 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.