Live Play Data

Zaffai and the Tempests

· Legendary Creature — Human Bard Sorcerer · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

152

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

70%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 74% (8 / 27 cast on T7)

The "good card" funnel

152 brought · 61 players

Brought to game

152

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -13.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=20) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=99).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.0pp to +31.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

40 instances

32.5%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

42.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 12 decks
2 Prismari, the Inspiration 9 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 7 decks
4 Itazura, Lingering Wick 6 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 6 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 2 decks
7 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
8 Magnus the Red 2 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 2 decks
10 Aegar, the Freezing Flame 1 decks

Card text

Zaffai and the Tempests

Legendary Creature — Human Bard Sorcerer

Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5 / 7

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.