Live Play Data

Auron, Venerated Guardian

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

361

Decks Running

165

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

14%

10%

54%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 18% (7 / 50 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

361 brought · 146 players

Brought to game

361

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=44) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=27).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

3.3%

Library

31.1%

Battlefield

27.8%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 112 decks
2 Yuna, Grand Summoner 17 decks
3 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 8 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fallen Hero 3 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
6 Raiyuu, Storm's Edge 2 decks
7 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal 2 decks
8 Aerith Gainsborough 1 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks

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

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.