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Professor Hojo

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

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Times Brought

406

Decks Running

208

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

77 instances

39.0%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

1.3%

Exile

26.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 188 decks
2 Tifa, Martial Artist 5 decks
3 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 3 decks
4 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 decks
5 Barret, Avalanche Leader 1 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
7 Dina, Essence Brewer 1 decks
8 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist 1 decks
9 General Marhault Elsdragon 1 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

406 brought · 200 players

Brought to game

406

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=39) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

15%

18%

13%

18%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 33% (10 / 55 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.