Live Play Data

O'aka, Traveling Merchant

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

835

Decks Running

354

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=134

20%

12%

34%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 25% (27 / 134 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

836 brought · 315 players

Brought to game

836

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

134

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.

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=118) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=506).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=63).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

240 instances

4.6%

Library

25.8%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 145 decks
2 Tom Bombadil 49 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 45 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 37 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 11 decks
6 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 6 decks
7 Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings 6 decks
8 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.