Live Play Data

Fathom Mage

· Creature — Human Wizard · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1535

Decks Running

606

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=230

17%

37%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 30% (40 / 230 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1536 brought · 559 players

Brought to game

1536

Ever drawn

361

Reached battlefield

230

Still on board at game end

118

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.

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=211) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=992).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=119).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

391 instances

3.3%

Library

30.2%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Fathom Mage

Creature — Human Wizard

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on this creature, you may draw a card.

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New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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.