Live Play Data

Trophy Mage

· Creature — Human Wizard · Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors (DDU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

406

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=73

14%

22%

19%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 25% (10 / 73 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

406 brought · 163 players

Brought to game

406

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=71) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 61% (n=38).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

122 instances

2.5%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

35.2%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 38 decks
2 Urza, Lord High Artificer 15 decks
3 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 14 decks
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 3 decks
5 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
6 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 3 decks
7 Memnarch 3 decks
8 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 3 decks
9 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 3 decks
10 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 2 decks

Card text

Trophy Mage

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors (DDU) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.