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Mysidian Elder

· Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

147

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

34 instances

35.3%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

20.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 28 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 10 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 9 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 7 decks
5 Black Waltz No. 3 5 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 3 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
8 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 2 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 Aegar, the Freezing Flame 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

147 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

147

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -14.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=21) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 -2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -14.3pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

23%

14%

18%

23%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 32% (2 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.