Live Play Data

Professor Hojo

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

465

Decks Running

188

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

25%

23%

26%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 26% (20 / 80 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

465 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

465

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=73) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=308).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=16).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

101 instances

4.0%

Library

31.7%

Battlefield

44.6%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 162 decks
2 Tifa, Martial Artist 6 decks
3 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 3 decks
4 Trostani, Three Whispers 3 decks
5 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 3 decks
6 Dina, Essence Brewer 2 decks
7 T'Challa, the Black Panther 2 decks
8 Barret, Avalanche Leader 1 decks
9 Black Panther, Wakandan King 1 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 1 decks

Card text

Professor Hojo

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

The first activated ability you activate during your turn that targets a creature you control costs {2}

less to activate. Whenever one or more creatures you control become the target of an activated ability, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Danciao

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.