Live Play Data

Syncopate

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

490

Decks Running

222

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

14%

56%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=74) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=47).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

147 instances

7.5%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

55.8%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 69 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 28 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 6 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
6 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 4 decks
7 The Mindskinner 4 decks
8 Edea, Possessed Sorceress 3 decks
9 Magnus the Red 3 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 3 decks

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

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.