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Professor Dellian Fel

{2} {B} {G} · Legendary Planeswalker — Dellian · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
Times Brought
286
Decks Running
129
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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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

Final zone distribution

65 instances
1.5%
Library
38.5%
Battlefield
32.3%
Graveyard
1.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 130 players
Brought to game
286
Ever drawn
61
Reached battlefield
42
Still on board at game end
25

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=29) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=173).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42
0%
T1
2%
T2
17%
T3
17%
T4
21%
T5
29%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 36% (7 / 42 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.