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Lifestream's Blessing

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

453

Decks Running

225

In Decks

1174

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Lifestream's Blessing

Instant

Draw X cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you controlled as you cast this spell. If this spell was cast from exile, you gain twice X life. Foretell {4}

(During your turn, you may pay {2}

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Kotakan

Final zone distribution

111 instances

2.7%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

22.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

453 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

453

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=34) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=295).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=55) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +18.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +35.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

64%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 23% (2 / 39 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

39 of 100 times cast 39%

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.