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#8 Azorius counterspell
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Creature — Bird
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Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
Live Play Data
Judge's Familiar
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
162
Decks Running
100
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
80%
Format
First-cast turn
n=35
11%
T1
17%
T2
6%
T3
6%
T4
9%
T5
40%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
6
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
11%
(4 / 35 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
50%
The "good card" funnel
162 brought · 100 playersBrought to game
162
Ever drawn
44
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
16
Once cast, 46% 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.
≥ -14.6pp
Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=32) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=106).
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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
45 instances8.9%
Library
35.6%
Battlefield
37.8%
Graveyard
8.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Choco, Seeker of Paradise
40 decks
-
2
Kastral, the Windcrested
21 decks
-
3
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
4 decks
-
4
Kangee, Sky Warden
4 decks
-
5
Aragorn, the Uniter
3 decks
-
6
Zinnia, Valley's Voice
3 decks
-
7
Dragonlord Ojutai
2 decks
-
8
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
2 decks
-
9
Gwaihir the Windlord
2 decks
-
10
Krile Baldesion
2 decks
Card text
Judge's Familiar
Creature — Bird
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
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1 / 1
Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
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Common
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Illustrated by Jack Wang
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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.