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Dark Confidant

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

381

Decks Running

230

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

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

89 instances

2.2%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

32.6%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 19 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 12 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
4 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 8 decks
5 Karlov of the Ghost Council 8 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
7 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 6 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 5 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 5 decks
10 The Destined Warrior 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

383 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

383

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=48) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=222).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=57

19%

16%

18%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 35% (9 / 57 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

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.