Live Play Data

The Wind Crystal

· Legendary Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1190

Decks Running

579

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=176

13%

12%

51%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 26% (23 / 176 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1190 brought · 493 players

Brought to game

1190

Ever drawn

256

Reached battlefield

176

Still on board at game end

131

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=160) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=798).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=75).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

283 instances

4.6%

Library

46.3%

Battlefield

21.2%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 50 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 29 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 23 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 22 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 22 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 19 decks
7 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 13 decks
8 Aerith Gainsborough 12 decks
9 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 11 decks
10 Darien, King of Kjeldor 11 decks

Card text

The Wind Crystal

Legendary Artifact

White spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. {4}

: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Pablo Mendoza

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.