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Syncopate

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

210

Decks Running

107

In Decks

640

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Syncopate

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}

. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Nijihayashi

Final zone distribution

56 instances

10.7%

Library

53.6%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

30.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 40 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 17 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 3 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 3 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 decks
7 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 2 decks
8 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 2 decks
9 Ms. Bumbleflower 2 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

210 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

210

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=30) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=141).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=18) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

56%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 23%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.