Live Play Data

Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

849

Decks Running

411

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=149

11%

49%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 23% (14 / 149 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

849 brought · 385 players

Brought to game

849

Ever drawn

230

Reached battlefield

134

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=123) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=495).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=78).

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 -7.7pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

256 instances

3.1%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 258 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 71 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
4 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 7 decks
5 Toshiro Umezawa 5 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
7 Black Waltz No. 3 3 decks
8 Silverquill, the Disputant 3 decks
9 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 3 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 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 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.