Live Play Data

Espers to Magicite

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

296

Decks Running

148

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

42%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

52%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 12

On curve 7% (1 / 27 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

296 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

296

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=23) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=176).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=32).

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 +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +33.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

3.3%

Library

63.7%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

25.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 82 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 6 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 4 decks
5 Locke, Treasure Hunter 3 decks
6 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 2 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks
8 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks
9 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin 2 decks
10 Umbris, Fear Manifest 2 decks

Card text

Espers to Magicite

Instant

Exile each opponent's graveyard. When you do, choose up to one target creature card exiled this way. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an artifact and it loses all other card types.

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by AKAGI

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.