Live Play Data

Aerith, Last Ancient

· Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Druid · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

707

Decks Running

307

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=177

14%

18%

14%

37%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 36% (32 / 177 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

707 brought · 290 players

Brought to game

707

Ever drawn

182

Reached battlefield

107

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=97) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=436).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=61).

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 -4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.2pp to +2.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

197 instances

4.1%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 191 decks
2 Kwia Vigorbloom 29 decks
3 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 16 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 9 decks
5 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 9 decks
6 Tifa, Martial Artist 8 decks
7 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 4 decks
8 Yuna, Hope of Spira 4 decks
9 Helga, Skittish Seer 3 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks

Card text

Aerith, Last Ancient

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Druid

Lifelink Raise — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you gained 7 or more life this turn, return that card to the battlefield instead.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Marta Nael

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.