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Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

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

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Times Brought

328

Decks Running

173

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

79 instances

1.3%

Library

40.5%

Battlefield

10.1%

Graveyard

16.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 120 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 22 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
4 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
5 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy 3 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
7 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks
8 Queza, Augur of Agonies 2 decks
9 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 2 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

328 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

328

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=32) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=185).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=17).

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 +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

16%

39%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 11 · max 21

On curve 32% (7 / 44 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.