Live Play Data

Deranged Assistant

· Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

275

Decks Running

139

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

19%

14%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 21% (8 / 43 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=41) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=30).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +29.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

115 instances

2.6%

Library

15.7%

Battlefield

46.1%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Grolnok, the Omnivore 20 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 10 decks
3 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 8 decks
4 Araumi of the Dead Tide 7 decks
5 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 6 decks
6 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic 6 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 6 decks
8 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 5 decks
9 The Ancient One 5 decks
10 Octavia, Living Thesis 4 decks

Card text

Deranged Assistant

Creature — Human Wizard

, Mill a card: Add {C}

. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

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Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Common · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.