Live Play Data

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

· Legendary Creature — Human Mutant Scout · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

132

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=67

24%

21%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 48% (14 / 67 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

132 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

132

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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=23) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +21.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

28.9%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

34.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Legendary Creature — Human Mutant Scout

When Zidane enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap it. It gains lifelink and haste until end of turn. Whenever an opponent gains control of a permanent from you, you create a Treasure token.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eiji Kaneda

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.