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Dark Confidant

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

465

Decks Running

249

In Decks

1583

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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.

2 / 1

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Immanuela Crovius

Final zone distribution

122 instances

4.1%

Library

23.8%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

13.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 21 decks
2 Mister Negative 12 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
6 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 7 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 6 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 6 decks
9 The Destined Warrior 6 decks
10 Breena, the Demagogue 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

466 brought · 220 players

Brought to game

466

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=65) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=304).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +25.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

24%

19%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 28% (18 / 74 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

74 of 100 times cast 74%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

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.