Live Play Data

Rhystic Study

· Enchantment · Jumpstart 2022 (J22)

21%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

10156

Decks Running

4380

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1959

14%

24%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 23

On curve 41% (466 / 1959 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

10170 brought · 2343 players

Brought to game

10170

Ever drawn

2704

Reached battlefield

1959

Still on board at game end

1380

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=1773) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=6132).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=669).

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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +8.0pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3001 instances

3.5%

Library

46.0%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 140 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 98 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 79 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 71 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 63 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 60 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 53 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 52 decks
9 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 50 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 47 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 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.