Live Play Data

Magus of the Wheel

· Creature — Human Wizard · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

935

Decks Running

445

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=142

19%

13%

12%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 24% (27 / 142 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

936 brought · 411 players

Brought to game

936

Ever drawn

244

Reached battlefield

142

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 27% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=126) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=578).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=92).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances

8.1%

Library

14.4%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 90 decks
2 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 33 decks
3 Anje Falkenrath 13 decks
4 Norin the Wary 13 decks
5 Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas 9 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 9 decks
7 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 9 decks
8 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 7 decks
9 The Locust God 7 decks
10 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 6 decks

Card text

Magus of the Wheel

Creature — Human Wizard

, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Carl Frank

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.