Live Play Data

Ancient Adamantoise

· Creature — Turtle · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

184

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=76

11%

62%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 74% (17 / 76 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

447 brought · 174 players

Brought to game

447

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=70) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=277).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

128 instances

6.3%

Library

27.3%

Battlefield

18.0%

Graveyard

20.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doran, Besieged by Time 22 decks
2 Radagast of Rhosgobel 17 decks
3 Felothar the Steadfast 16 decks
4 Betor, Kin to All 14 decks
5 Kona, Rescue Beastie 9 decks
6 Venom, Deadly Devourer 7 decks
7 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 5 decks
8 Arcades, the Strategist 4 decks
9 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 4 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 3 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 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.