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Part of Final Fantasy
: Add or . Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on The Emperor of Palamecia. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform it.
Live Play Data
The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard // Legendary Creature — Demon Noble Wizard
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Final Fantasy (FIN)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
364
Decks Running
173
Median Cast Turn
2.0
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
First-cast turn
n=128
13%
T1
43%
T2
9%
T3
4%
T4
7%
T5
20%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
2.0
P25
2
· P75
5
· max
15
On curve
55%
(55 / 128 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
42%
The "good card" funnel
364 brought · 159 playersBrought to game
364
Ever drawn
91
Reached battlefield
61
Still on board at game end
32
Once cast, 52% 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.
≥ -3.8pp
Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=55) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=242).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=27).
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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
97 instances4.1%
Library
33.0%
Battlefield
35.1%
Graveyard
6.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Gandalf, Party Guest
43 decks
-
2
Vivi Ornitier
32 decks
-
3
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
21 decks
-
4
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
12 decks
-
5
Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
9 decks
-
6
Fire Lord Azula
4 decks
-
7
Gandalf the Grey
4 decks
-
8
Jodah, the Unifier
4 decks
-
9
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
3 decks
-
10
Prismari, the Inspiration
3 decks
Card text
The Emperor of Palamecia
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard
: Add or . Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on The Emperor of Palamecia. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform it.2 / 2
The Lord Master of Hell
Legendary Creature — Demon Noble Wizard
Starfall — Whenever The Lord Master of Hell attacks, it deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of noncreature, nonland cards in your graveyard.
3 / 3
Final Fantasy (FIN)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Heonhwa
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.