Live Play Data

Banon, the Returners' Leader

· Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Rebel · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

19%

13%

17%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 21% (10 / 52 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=47) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=168).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=17).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

3.4%

Library

33.0%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 93 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 18 decks
3 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
4 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 6 decks
5 Mog, Moogle Warrior 2 decks
6 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 2 decks
7 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 1 decks
8 General Ferrous Rokiric 1 decks
9 Hofri Ghostforge 1 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks

Card text

Banon, the Returners' Leader

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Rebel

Pray — Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from among cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere other than the battlefield this turn. Whenever you attack, you may pay {1}

and discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Landerman

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.