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Banon, the Returners' Leader

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

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

116

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

72 instances

2.8%

Library

34.7%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 87 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 16 decks
3 Celes, Rune Knight 4 decks
4 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
5 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 1 decks
6 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 1 decks
7 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks
8 Kratos, Stoic Father 1 decks
9 Mog, Moogle Warrior 1 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

218

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.

≥ -11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=29) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=112).

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 -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

12%

14%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 17% (2 / 42 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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.