Live Play Data

Elena, Turk Recruit

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

422

Decks Running

172

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

13%

19%

42%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 17% (7 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

422 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

422

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=47) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=278).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=34).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

4.2%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 109 decks
2 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 7 decks
3 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 6 decks
4 Tifa, Martial Artist 6 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
6 Aerith Gainsborough 3 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
8 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 2 decks
9 Cloud, Planet's Champion 2 decks
10 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 2 decks

Card text

Elena, Turk Recruit

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

When Elena enters, return target non-Assassin historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Whenever you cast a historic spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Elena.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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.