Live Play Data

Fathom Mage

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

866

Decks Running

379

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

16%

37%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 28% (23 / 143 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

867 brought · 360 players

Brought to game

867

Ever drawn

213

Reached battlefield

143

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.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=130) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=547).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=67).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

233 instances

3.4%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

39.5%

Graveyard

3.0%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.