Live Play Data

Wizard's Staff

· Artifact — Equipment · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

985

Decks Running

431

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=183

11%

14%

11%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 17% (20 / 183 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

985 brought · 368 players

Brought to game

985

Ever drawn

255

Reached battlefield

183

Still on board at game end

138

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.

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=160) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=599).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=66).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

285 instances

3.5%

Library

48.4%

Battlefield

22.1%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 57 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 43 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 24 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 14 decks
6 Hope Estheim 12 decks
7 Saruman of Many Colors 10 decks
8 Vraska, Soul of Stone 10 decks
9 Aragorn, the Uniter 7 decks
10 Bard, King of Dale 7 decks

Card text

Wizard's Staff

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has prowess. (Whenever its controller casts a noncreature spell, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) If a triggered ability of equipped creature triggers, that ability triggers an additional time. Equip Wizard {1}

Equip

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Gaboleps

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.