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Venser, Shaper Savant

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

240

Decks Running

113

In Decks

876

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Venser, Shaper Savant

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

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Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

Final zone distribution

76 instances

1.3%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brago, King Eternal 18 decks
2 Helga, Skittish Seer 9 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 5 decks
4 Orvar, the All-Form 5 decks
5 Yarok, the Desecrated 5 decks
6 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward 4 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
8 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 decks
9 Y'shtola Rhul 3 decks
10 Chromium, the Mutable 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 110 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=41) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=150).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=25) — 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 +22.2pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +37.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

10%

17%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 14% (4 / 42 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

42 of 100 times cast 42%

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.