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Estinien Varlineau

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

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Times Brought

201

Decks Running

120

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

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

45 instances

2.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 116 decks
2 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks
3 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

201 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

201

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=19) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=107).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

42%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 19% (2 / 26 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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.