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Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

398

Decks Running

193

In Decks

1015

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

126 instances

1.6%

Library

27.0%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 128 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 28 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 2 decks
5 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat 2 decks
6 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 2 decks
7 The Destined Black Mage 2 decks
8 Toshiro Umezawa 2 decks
9 Athreos, God of Passage 1 decks
10 Black Waltz No. 3 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

398 brought · 183 players

Brought to game

398

Ever drawn

118

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.

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=66) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=239).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=41) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=70

10%

46%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 24% (7 / 70 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

70 of 100 times cast 70%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.