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Auron, Venerated Guardian

· Legendary Creature — Human Spirit Samurai · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

226

Decks Running

112

In Decks

725

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Auron, Venerated Guardian

Legendary Creature — Human Spirit Samurai

Vigilance Shooting Star — Whenever Auron attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. When you do, exile target creature defending player controls with power less than Auron's power until Auron leaves the battlefield.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Colin Boyer

Final zone distribution

61 instances

4.9%

Library

39.3%

Battlefield

26.2%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 72 decks
2 Yuna, Grand Summoner 11 decks
3 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 5 decks
4 Auron, Venerated Guardian 3 decks
5 Raiyuu, Storm's Edge 2 decks
6 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal 2 decks
7 Aerith Gainsborough 1 decks
8 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks
9 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

226 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

226

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=32) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=150).

Observed gap +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

58%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 6% (1 / 33 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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.