Live Play Data

Protection Magic

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

678

Decks Running

329

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=79

11%

56%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 79 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

678 brought · 300 players

Brought to game

678

Ever drawn

161

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=72) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=430).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=68).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

4.1%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 183 decks
2 Yuna, Grand Summoner 52 decks
3 Kros, Defense Contractor 6 decks
4 Storm, Windrider 6 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 4 decks
6 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 3 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
8 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 3 decks
9 Garnet, Princess of Alexandria 3 decks
10 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks

Card text

Protection Magic

Instant

Put a shield counter on each of up to three target creatures. (If a creature with a shield counter would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mikio Masuda

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.