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Semester's End card art
Live Play Data

Semester's End

{3} {W} · Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
388
Decks Running
191
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
31%
Format

First-cast turn

n=29
0%
T1
3%
T2
0%
T3
3%
T4
10%
T5
66%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 7% (1 / 29 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

388 brought · 194 players
Brought to game
388
Ever drawn
95
Reached battlefield
29
Still on board at game end
4
≥ -20.1pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=27) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=258).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=58).

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 -4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -20.1pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances
3.8%
Library
3.8%
Battlefield
36.2%
Graveyard
9.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Semester's End card

Semester's End

{3} {W}
Instant
Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.
Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Alayna Danner

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.