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The Wind Crystal

· Legendary Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

726

Decks Running

368

In Decks

2011

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

173 instances

3.5%

Library

49.1%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 30 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 24 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 14 decks
4 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 11 decks
5 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 11 decks
6 Giada, Font of Hope 10 decks
7 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 8 decks
8 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
10 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

726 brought · 320 players

Brought to game

726

Ever drawn

155

Reached battlefield

113

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=105) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=479).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=40) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=113

10%

12%

10%

53%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 26% (14 / 113 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

704 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.