Live Play Data

Mysidian Elder

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

263

Decks Running

145

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

24%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 37% (10 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

263 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

263

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=39) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=177).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

3.3%

Library

31.7%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 69 decks
2 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 17 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
4 Black Waltz No. 3 6 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 6 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
7 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 3 decks
8 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 2 decks
9 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks
10 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 2 decks

Card text

Mysidian Elder

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by David Astruga

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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.