Live Play Data

The Destined Black Mage

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

155

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

25%

11%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 36% (7 / 28 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

155 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

155

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -16.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=20) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=109).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -16.6pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

36 instances

2.8%

Library

44.4%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 29 decks
2 The Destined Warrior 25 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 8 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
5 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks
6 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 1 decks
7 Burakos, Party Leader 1 decks
8 Cecily, Haunted Mage 1 decks
9 Chromium 1 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks

Card text

The Destined Black Mage

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Deathtouch {B}

: Another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, The Destined Black Mage deals 1 damage to each opponent. If you have a full party, it deals 3 damage to each opponent instead.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by David Rapoza

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.