Live Play Data

Cyan, Vengeful Samurai

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

120

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

58%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 55% (9 / 33 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=29) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=21).

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 +20.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +36.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

4.2%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

40.3%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 103 decks
2 Celes, Rune Knight 5 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 2 decks
4 Aerith, Last Ancient 1 decks
5 Alisaie Leveilleur 1 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks
7 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 1 decks
8 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks
9 Edgar Markov 1 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 1 decks

Card text

Cyan, Vengeful Samurai

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai

This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Double strike Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Cyan.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Christian Angel

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.