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Syncopate

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

254

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

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

52 instances

5.8%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

48.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 37 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 14 decks
3 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 6 decks
4 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 4 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
6 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 3 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
9 Arcades, the Strategist 2 decks
10 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

254 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

254

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=21) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=147).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=16).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 9%

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.