Live Play Data

Preston, the Vanisher

· Legendary Creature — Rabbit Wizard · Jumpstart 2022 (J22)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

514

Decks Running

233

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=173

19%

20%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 29% (33 / 173 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

514 brought · 215 players

Brought to game

514

Ever drawn

192

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=139) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=263).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=32).

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 +21.0pp; 95% confidence interval +11.4pp to +30.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

199 instances

2.5%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 74 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 24 decks
3 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 9 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 9 decks
5 Niko, Light of Hope 9 decks
6 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 8 decks
7 Terra, Herald of Hope 7 decks
8 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 5 decks
9 Ketramose, the New Dawn 4 decks
10 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 3 decks

Card text

Preston, the Vanisher

Legendary Creature — Rabbit Wizard

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, if it wasn't cast, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a 0/1 white Illusion. {1}

, Sacrifice five Illusions: Exile target nonland permanent.

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Jumpstart 2022 (J22) · Rare · Illustrated by Christina Kraus

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.