Live Play Data

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

· Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard · Commander Anthology (CMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

483

Decks Running

133

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=164

18%

24%

23%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 23% (29 / 164 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

483 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

483

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +25.6pp

Players who cast this card win 59% of the time (n=113) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=268).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (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 +35.0pp; 95% confidence interval +25.6pp to +44.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

174 instances

4.6%

Library

54.0%

Battlefield

17.8%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 38 decks
2 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 32 decks
3 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 28 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 11 decks
5 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 7 decks
6 Aragorn, the Uniter 3 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 2 decks
9 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
10 Lagrella, the Magpie 2 decks

Card text

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying When Derevi enters and whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent. {1}

: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

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Commander Anthology (CMA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Michael Komarck

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.