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Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

· Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret · Edge of Eternities (EOE)

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Times Brought

895

Decks Running

476

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

Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Tezzeret. 0: Untap target artifact or creature. If it's an artifact creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it. −3: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put three +1/+1 counters on target artifact you control. If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature."

Loyalty 4

Edge of Eternities (EOE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

201 instances

5.0%

Library

43.8%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 21 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 21 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 19 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 18 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 16 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 16 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 14 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 13 decks
9 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 10 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

895 brought · 380 players

Brought to game

895

Ever drawn

181

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=111) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=479).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=29).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=135

13%

16%

17%

16%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 35% (21 / 135 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.