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Banon, the Returners' Leader

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

100

In Decks

532

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

66 instances

3.0%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

48.5%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 69 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 15 decks
3 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 5 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 3 decks
5 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 2 decks
6 General Ferrous Rokiric 1 decks
7 Hofri Ghostforge 1 decks
8 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks
9 Kratos, Stoic Father 1 decks
10 Lightning, Army of One 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=35) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=119).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

22%

16%

14%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 24% (8 / 37 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

37 of 100 times cast 37%

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.