Live Play Data

Sazh's Chocobo

· Creature — Bird · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

342

Decks Running

177

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

28%

10%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 28% (22 / 78 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 76%

The "good card" funnel

342 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

342

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=72) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=211).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=15).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +23.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

104 instances

4.8%

Library

36.5%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 49 decks
2 Tifa Lockhart 25 decks
3 The Wandering Minstrel 18 decks
4 Toph, the First Metalbender 8 decks
5 The Earth King 5 decks
6 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 4 decks
7 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 4 decks
8 Tatyova, Benthic Druid 4 decks
9 Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter 3 decks
10 Toph, Earthbending Master 3 decks

Card text

Sazh's Chocobo

Creature — Bird

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Domenico Cava

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.