Live Play Data

Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

511

Decks Running

256

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

10%

46%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 23% (8 / 81 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

511 brought · 244 players

Brought to game

511

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -9.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=76) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=55).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.8pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

158 instances

1.9%

Library

25.3%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 169 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 39 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
4 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
5 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 2 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 2 decks
8 Queza, Augur of Agonies 2 decks
9 The Destined Black Mage 2 decks
10 Toshiro Umezawa 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.