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Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser

{2} {U} {X} {U} {U} · Creature — Djinn Monk // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Times Brought
303
Decks Running
158
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser card

Dirgur Focusmage

{2} {U}
Creature — Djinn Monk
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 5 or greater from your hand, this creature becomes prepared.
1 / 4

Braingeyser

{X} {U} {U}
Sorcery
Target player draws X cards.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrew Mar

Final zone distribution

71 instances
1.4%
Library
43.7%
Battlefield
15.5%
Graveyard
12.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

303 brought · 149 players
Brought to game
303
Ever drawn
70
Reached battlefield
51
Still on board at game end
31

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=44) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=17).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=51
0%
T1
10%
T2
14%
T3
10%
T4
8%
T5
53%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12
Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.