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Shadow, Mysterious Assassin

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

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Times Brought

234

Decks Running

132

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

3 / 3

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

Final zone distribution

59 instances

62.7%

Battlefield

25.4%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

6.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 87 decks
2 Ares, God of War 8 decks
3 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 6 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 5 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks
6 The Serpent Society 3 decks
7 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 2 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

234 brought · 127 players

Brought to game

234

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=26) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=123).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

14%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 16% (5 / 43 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.