Live Play Data

Dark Confidant

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

738

Decks Running

364

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

27%

17%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 32% (28 / 105 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

739 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

739

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=95) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=481).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=54).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

188 instances

4.3%

Library

21.3%

Battlefield

41.0%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 25 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 20 decks
3 Mister Negative 15 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 14 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 11 decks
6 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 10 decks
7 Rowan, Scion of War 10 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 10 decks
9 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 8 decks
10 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 8 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.