Live Play Data

Preston, the Vanisher

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

172

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

16%

23%

30%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 47% (10 / 43 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 93 players

Brought to game

172

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=27) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=93).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=15).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

3.7%

Library

40.7%

Battlefield

16.7%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brago, King Eternal 15 decks
2 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 8 decks
3 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 7 decks
4 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 6 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks
6 Terra, Herald of Hope 5 decks
7 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 3 decks
8 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician 3 decks
9 Ketramose, the New Dawn 3 decks
10 Niko, Light of Hope 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.