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Live Play Data

Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

{2} {U} {B} · Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)
3%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
911
Decks Running
467
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
58%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=155
1%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
10%
T4
15%
T5
49%
T6-9
21%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18
On curve 15% (16 / 155 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

914 brought · 429 players
Brought to game
914
Ever drawn
253
Reached battlefield
146
Still on board at game end
68

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=131) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=527).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=87).

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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

284 instances
1.8%
Library
23.9%
Battlefield
32.4%
Graveyard
11.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat card

Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

{2} {U} {B}
Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {2} less to cast. Whenever one or more opponents lose life, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Do this only once each turn.
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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.