Live Play Data

Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

670

Decks Running

334

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=118

10%

48%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 24% (12 / 118 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

670 brought · 318 players

Brought to game

670

Ever drawn

186

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=99) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=388).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=62).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

207 instances

1.4%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 210 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 57 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
4 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 4 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
6 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 3 decks
7 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 2 decks
8 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
9 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks
10 Lord of the Nazgûl 2 decks

Card text

Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, surveil 1. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent may sacrifice a nontoken creature of their choice. Each opponent who doesn't loses 2 life for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

4 / 5

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Paulius Daščioras

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.