Live Play Data

O'aka, Traveling Merchant

· Legendary Creature — Human Citizen · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

661

Decks Running

292

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=102

21%

14%

34%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 25% (21 / 102 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

662 brought · 259 players

Brought to game

662

Ever drawn

155

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=89) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=403).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=48).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

185 instances

4.3%

Library

26.5%

Battlefield

36.8%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 120 decks
2 Tom Bombadil 39 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 34 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 34 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 8 decks
6 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 5 decks
7 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 4 decks
8 Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings 4 decks
9 Xavier Sal, Infested Captain 4 decks
10 Rikala, Homarid King 3 decks

Card text

O'aka, Traveling Merchant

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen

, Remove a counter from a nonland permanent you control: Draw a card.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fang Xinyu

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.