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Drannith Magistrate

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

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Times Brought

1246

Decks Running

603

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

274 instances

4.4%

Library

44.9%

Battlefield

27.4%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 37 decks
2 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 32 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 21 decks
4 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 20 decks
5 Zur the Enchanter 18 decks
6 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 15 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 14 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 14 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 13 decks
10 Giada, Font of Hope 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1246 brought · 512 players

Brought to game

1246

Ever drawn

253

Reached battlefield

203

Still on board at game end

123

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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=145) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=678).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=39).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +4.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=203

15%

17%

12%

11%

22%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 27

On curve 33% (35 / 203 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

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.