Live Play Data

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1274

Decks Running

601

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=193

10%

13%

56%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 15% (20 / 193 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1275 brought · 529 players

Brought to game

1275

Ever drawn

419

Reached battlefield

193

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +24.7pp

Players who cast this card win 56% of the time (n=181) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=677).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=211).

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 +32.0pp; 95% confidence interval +24.7pp to +39.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

493 instances

4.3%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 41 decks
2 Whtz, the Bibliophile 26 decks
3 Jace, Multiverse Architect 21 decks
4 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 18 decks
5 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 16 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 15 decks
7 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 13 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 12 decks
9 Grolnok, the Omnivore 12 decks
10 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound 12 decks

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.