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Creature — Human Wizard
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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
Live Play Data
Drannith Magistrate
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1118
Decks Running
489
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
80%
Format
First-cast turn
n=224
9%
T1
18%
T2
8%
T3
13%
T4
10%
T5
30%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
19
On curve
28%
(41 / 224 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
50%
The "good card" funnel
1118 brought · 392 playersBrought to game
1118
Ever drawn
281
Reached battlefield
224
Still on board at game end
91
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.
≥ -2.5pp
Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=210) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=683).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=51).
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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
323 instances5.9%
Library
28.2%
Battlefield
33.4%
Graveyard
18.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
27 decks
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2
Winota, Joiner of Forces
24 decks
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3
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
16 decks
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4
Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
15 decks
-
5
Zur the Enchanter
14 decks
-
6
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
13 decks
-
7
Sen Triplets
12 decks
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8
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
11 decks
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9
Giada, Font of Hope
11 decks
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10
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
9 decks
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)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Kieran Yanner
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.