Live Play Data

Fist of Suns

· Artifact · Commander 2017 (C17)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

283

Decks Running

146

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

26%

19%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 31% (11 / 42 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

284 brought · 139 players

Brought to game

284

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=40) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=179).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

1.7%

Library

49.2%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 50 decks
2 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 20 decks
3 Morophon, the Boundless 15 decks
4 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 13 decks
5 Tiamat 8 decks
6 Jared Carthalion 4 decks
7 Progenitus 4 decks
8 Ramos, Dragon Engine 4 decks
9 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 4 decks
10 Sliver Overlord 3 decks

Card text

Fist of Suns

Artifact

You may pay {W}

rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

Commander 2017 (C17) · Rare · Illustrated by Arnie Swekel

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.