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Magistrate's Scepter

· Artifact · Core Set 2019 (M19)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

174

Decks Running

In Decks

340

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Magistrate's Scepter

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}

, Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Take an extra turn after this one.

Core Set 2019 (M19) · Rare · Illustrated by Adam Rex

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

51.1%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kilo, Apogee Mind 17 decks
2 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 10 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 7 decks
4 Alibou, Ancient Witness 2 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
6 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 2 decks
7 Lulu, Stern Guardian 2 decks
8 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus 2 decks
9 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 2 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

174 brought · 54 players

Brought to game

174

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=31) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=112).

Observed gap +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +29.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

61%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 9% (2 / 33 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.