Live Play Data

Interceptor, Shadow's Hound

· Legendary Creature — Dog · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

241

Decks Running

120

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

19%

61%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 10% (3 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

241 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

241

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 17% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=25) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=137).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=20).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +28.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

7.1%

Library

7.1%

Battlefield

55.7%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 88 decks
2 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 9 decks
3 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 7 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 4 decks
5 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin 3 decks
6 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance 2 decks
7 Ramses, Assassin Lord 2 decks
8 Noctis, Heir Apparent 1 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 1 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 1 decks

Card text

Interceptor, Shadow's Hound

Legendary Creature — Dog

Menace Assassins you control have menace. Whenever you attack with one or more legendary creatures, you may pay {2}

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Sansyu

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.