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Estinien Varlineau

· Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

In Decks

484

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Estinien Varlineau

Legendary Creature — Elf Warrior

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Estinien Varlineau. It gains flying until end of turn. At the beginning of your second main phase, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of your opponents who were dealt combat damage by Estinien Varlineau or a Dragon this turn.

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fang Xinyu

Final zone distribution

52 instances

1.9%

Library

25.0%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 81 decks
2 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 2 decks
3 Estinien Varlineau 2 decks
4 The Destined Warrior 2 decks
5 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=35) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=113).

Observed gap +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +24.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

46%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 23% (4 / 35 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.