Live Play Data

Thunder Magic

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

121

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

54%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 24 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

121 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

121

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -32.6pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=23) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=74).

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 -15.7pp; 95% confidence interval -32.6pp to +1.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

2.6%

Battlefield

57.9%

Graveyard

13.2%

Exile

26.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 10 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 9 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 4 decks
4 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 3 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 3 decks
7 Alania, Divergent Storm 2 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks
9 Cloud, Planet's Champion 2 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 2 decks

Card text

Thunder Magic

Instant

Tiered (Choose one additional cost.) • Thunder — {0}

— Thunder Magic deals 2 damage to target creature. • Thundara — {3}

— Thunder Magic deals 4 damage to target creature. • Thundaga — {5}

— Thunder Magic deals 8 damage to target creature.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Josephine Chang

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.