Live Play Data

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

· Legendary Planeswalker — Jace · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1778

Decks Running

760

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=287

11%

60%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 14% (32 / 287 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

1779 brought · 662 players

Brought to game

1779

Ever drawn

581

Reached battlefield

287

Still on board at game end

216

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +29.3pp

Players who cast this card win 58% of the time (n=275) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=996).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=281).

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 +35.2pp; 95% confidence interval +29.3pp to +41.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

683 instances

3.5%

Library

31.6%

Battlefield

23.3%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Legendary Planeswalker — Jace

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Loyalty 4

War of the Spark (WAR) · Rare · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.