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Magic Damper

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

365

Decks Running

169

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Magic Damper

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by YASUNARI HIRASAKA

Final zone distribution

72 instances

5.6%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 51 decks
2 Helga, Skittish Seer 6 decks
3 Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan 5 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 4 decks
5 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 4 decks
6 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 3 decks
7 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 3 decks
8 Yuna, Grand Summoner 3 decks
9 Alaundo the Seer 2 decks
10 Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

365 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

365

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=19) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=23).

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 -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -15.7pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

17%

47%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 30 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.