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Shantotto, Tactician Magician

· Legendary Creature — Dwarf Wizard · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

229

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Shantotto, Tactician Magician

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Wizard

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Shantotto gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. If X is 4 or more, draw a card.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Joshua Raphael

Final zone distribution

27 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 15 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 9 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 7 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
7 Denethor, Stone Seer 1 decks
8 Gandalf the Grey 1 decks
9 Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer 1 decks
10 Kalamax, the Stormsire 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

98 brought · 55 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -28.9pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=15) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=67).

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 -7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -28.9pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.