Live Play Data

Ancient Adamantoise

· Creature — Turtle · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

316

Decks Running

133

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

12%

63%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 73% (12 / 51 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

317 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

317

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.

≥ -11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=46) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=24).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.4pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

6.0%

Library

24.1%

Battlefield

18.1%

Graveyard

25.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doran, Besieged by Time 15 decks
2 Betor, Kin to All 12 decks
3 Radagast of Rhosgobel 11 decks
4 Felothar the Steadfast 9 decks
5 Kona, Rescue Beastie 7 decks
6 Venom, Deadly Devourer 6 decks
7 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 4 decks
8 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 3 decks
9 The Wandering Minstrel 3 decks
10 Arcades, the Strategist 2 decks

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.