Live Play Data

Zaffai and the Tempests

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

72%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 66% (8 / 32 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=24) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=124).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=20).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

27.5%

Battlefield

19.6%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 14 decks
2 Itazura, Lingering Wick 10 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 10 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 8 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 8 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 3 decks
7 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
9 Magnus the Red 2 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Supreme 2 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.