Live Play Data

Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

· Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

119

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

11%

32%

19%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 49% (12 / 37 cast on T4)

The "good card" funnel

119 brought · 34 players

Brought to game

119

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -18.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=79).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -18.9pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

35 instances

2.9%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 9 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 4 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 3 decks
4 Magnus the Red 2 decks
5 Mizzix of the Izmagnus 2 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
7 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
9 Zaffai and the Tempests 2 decks
10 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks

Card text

Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. If that spell's mana value is 5 or greater, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. If that spell's mana value is 10 or greater, Zaffai deals 10 damage to an opponent chosen at random.

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Commander 2021 (C21) · Mythic · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

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.