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Kimahri, Valiant Guardian

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

204

Decks Running

In Decks

623

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Kimahri, Valiant Guardian

Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior

Vigilance Ronso Rage — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Kimahri and tap target creature an opponent controls. Then you may have Kimahri become a copy of that creature, except its name is Kimahri, Valiant Guardian and it has vigilance and this ability.

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

26.9%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

204 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

204

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=30) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=140).

Observed gap +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +34.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

32%

19%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 35% (10 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

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

Frequently Asked

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.