Live Play Data

Rhystic Study

· Enchantment · Jumpstart 2022 (J22)

21%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

13603

Decks Running

5534

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2640

14%

25%

12%

13%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 29

On curve 41% (647 / 2640 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

13619 brought · 2835 players

Brought to game

13619

Ever drawn

3628

Reached battlefield

2640

Still on board at game end

1864

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=2379) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=8229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=886).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +9.3pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4034 instances

3.3%

Library

46.2%

Battlefield

21.8%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 172 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 129 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 102 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 89 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 71 decks
6 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 70 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 67 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 66 decks
9 Ms. Bumbleflower 61 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 55 decks

Card text

Rhystic Study

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}

Jumpstart 2022 (J22) · Rare · Illustrated by Tatiana Kirgetova

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.