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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

· Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

236

Decks Running

132

In Decks

834

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

66 instances

1.5%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 111 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 8 decks
3 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat 2 decks
4 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 2 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 1 decks
6 Golbez, Crystal Collector 1 decks
7 Hama, the Bloodbender 1 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
9 Noctis, Heir Apparent 1 decks
10 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

239 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

239

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -18.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=35) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=18) — 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 -3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -18.1pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

50%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 13% (2 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

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

Frequently Asked

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.