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Professor Hojo

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

341

Decks Running

144

In Decks

822

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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.

2 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

70 instances

4.3%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 125 decks
2 Tifa, Martial Artist 5 decks
3 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
4 T'Challa, the Black Panther 2 decks
5 Trostani, Three Whispers 2 decks
6 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 2 decks
7 Barret, Avalanche Leader 1 decks
8 Black Panther, Wakandan King 1 decks
9 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 1 decks
10 General Marhault Elsdragon 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

341 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

341

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=57) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=229).

Observed gap +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

27%

24%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 29% (16 / 59 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

59 of 100 times cast 59%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.