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Nine-Lives Familiar

· Creature — Cat · Foundations (FDN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

196

Decks Running

108

In Decks

770

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Nine-Lives Familiar

Creature — Cat

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it. When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Bram Sels

Final zone distribution

47 instances

4.3%

Library

42.6%

Battlefield

17.0%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 27 decks
2 Olag and Miau, New Friends 7 decks
3 Ayara, First of Locthwain 6 decks
4 Ygra, Eater of All 5 decks
5 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill 4 decks
6 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 3 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 3 decks
8 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 3 decks
9 Super Shredder 3 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

200 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

200

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -17.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=24) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=121).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=16) — 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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -17.2pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

16%

48%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 12% (1 / 25 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.