Live Play Data

Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

· Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

290

Decks Running

149

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

16%

17%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 19% (9 / 64 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

292 brought · 140 players

Brought to game

292

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=53) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=17).

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 -6.9pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

8.1%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

Deathtouch Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Wisnu Tan

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.