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Aerith, Last Ancient

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

235

Decks Running

105

In Decks

680

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

66 instances

1.5%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 81 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 3 decks
3 Tifa, Martial Artist 3 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
5 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 2 decks
6 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 2 decks
7 Yuna, Hope of Spira 2 decks
8 Aerith, Last Ancient 1 decks
9 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 1 decks
10 Kamahl, Heart of Krosa 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

235 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

235

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -17.2pp

Players who cast this card win 12% of the time (n=35) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -17.2pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

47%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 24% (4 / 38 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.