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Zack Fair

{W} · Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · Final Fantasy (FIN)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
341
Decks Running
151
In Decks
944
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format

Final zone distribution

83 instances
31.3%
Battlefield
44.6%
Graveyard
13.3%
Exile
10.8%
Hand

The "good card" funnel

341 brought · 140 players
Brought to game
341
Ever drawn
78
Reached battlefield
67
Still on board at game end
26

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=59) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=222).

Observed gap -2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67
22%
T1
12%
T2
12%
T3
7%
T4
4%
T5
27%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 4 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 22% (15 / 67 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%
67 of 100 times cast 67%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.