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Ancient Adamantoise

· Creature — Turtle · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

In Decks

416

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ancient Adamantoise

Creature — Turtle

Vigilance, ward {3}

Damage isn't removed from this creature during cleanup steps. All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to this creature instead. When this creature dies, exile it and create ten tapped Treasure tokens.

8 / 20

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kevin Glint

Final zone distribution

39 instances

7.7%

Library

28.2%

Battlefield

15.4%

Graveyard

28.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doran, Besieged by Time 8 decks
2 Felothar the Steadfast 6 decks
3 Betor, Kin to All 4 decks
4 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 3 decks
5 Kona, Rescue Beastie 3 decks
6 Eshki, Temur's Roar 2 decks
7 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 2 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 2 decks
9 Gluntch, the Bestower 2 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

160

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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 37% of the time (n=26) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=109).

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.

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

61%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 75% (6 / 28 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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.