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Professor Dellian Fel card art
Live Play Data

Professor Dellian Fel

{2} {B} {G} · Legendary Planeswalker — Dellian · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
336
Decks Running
131
Median Cast Turn
5.5
Drawn → Played
68%
Format

First-cast turn

n=56
0%
T1
5%
T2
11%
T3
16%
T4
18%
T5
38%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 32% (9 / 56 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

336 brought · 131 players
Brought to game
336
Ever drawn
82
Reached battlefield
56
Still on board at game end
30

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=50) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=209).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=23).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

89 instances
3.4%
Library
33.7%
Battlefield
36.0%
Graveyard
5.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Professor Dellian Fel card

Professor Dellian Fel

{2} {B} {G}
Legendary Planeswalker — Dellian
+2: You gain 3 life. 0: You draw a card and lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life."
Loyalty 5
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

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.