Live Play Data
Sakashima's Student
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
247
Decks Running
118
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
73%
Format
First-cast turn
n=46
0%
T1
0%
T2
13%
T3
15%
T4
20%
T5
43%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
13
On curve
28%
(7 / 46 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
28%
The "good card" funnel
247 brought · 111 playersBrought to game
247
Ever drawn
63
Reached battlefield
46
Still on board at game end
17
Once cast, 37% 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.
≥ -3.4pp
Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=42) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=156).
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 -3.4pp to +25.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
73 instances4.1%
Library
23.3%
Battlefield
28.8%
Graveyard
21.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
47 decks
-
2
Satoru Umezawa
9 decks
-
3
Splinter, Radical Rat
8 decks
-
4
Goro-Goro and Satoru
7 decks
-
5
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
6 decks
-
6
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
4 decks
-
7
Princess Yue
4 decks
-
8
Uugguu, the Omniplasm
4 decks
-
9
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
3 decks
-
10
Heroes in a Half Shell
2 decks
Card text
Sakashima's Student
Creature — Human Ninja
Ninjutsu 
(
, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.
0 / 0
Planechase Anthology (PCA)
·
Rare
·
Illustrated by Brian Snõddy
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.