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Drannith Magistrate

· Creature — Human Wizard · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

535

Decks Running

260

In Decks

1989

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Drannith Magistrate

Creature — Human Wizard

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Rare · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

Final zone distribution

164 instances

7.3%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

15.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

535 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

535

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=111) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=309).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=25) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=117

17%

15%

13%

30%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 23% (20 / 117 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

501 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.