Live Play Data

Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

173

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

25%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 17% (1 / 24 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

173 brought · 54 players

Brought to game

173

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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=20) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=117).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=17).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +34.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

4.3%

Library

30.4%

Battlefield

32.6%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 14 decks
2 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 11 decks
3 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 4 decks
4 Alistair, the Brigadier 2 decks
5 Kotori, Pilot Prodigy 2 decks
6 Ms. Bumbleflower 2 decks
7 The Sixth Doctor 2 decks
8 Tom Bombadil 2 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks
10 Alela, Artful Provocateur 1 decks

Card text

Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Flash Flying You may cast historic spells as though they had flash. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Stanko

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.