Live Play Data

Jenova, Ancient Calamity

· Legendary Creature — Alien · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

328

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=114

17%

34%

19%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 54% (39 / 114 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

328 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

328

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -15.7pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=41) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=211).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=26).

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 -2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -15.7pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

2.3%

Library

24.1%

Battlefield

37.9%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 33 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 21 decks
3 The Muckslinger Gang 12 decks
4 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 7 decks
5 The Master, Transcendent 7 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 6 decks
7 Leonardo, the Balance 6 decks
8 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 3 decks
9 Infinite Guideline Station 3 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks

Card text

Jenova, Ancient Calamity

Legendary Creature — Alien

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Jenova's power on up to one other target creature. That creature becomes a Mutant in addition to its other types. Whenever a Mutant you control dies during your turn, you draw cards equal to its power.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Ignatius Budi

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.