Live Play Data

Sephiroth's Intervention

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

267

Decks Running

129

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

57%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 10% (2 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

271 brought · 110 players

Brought to game

271

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.6pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=37) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=182).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=17).

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 -5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -18.6pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

3.0%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

68.2%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 17 decks
2 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 12 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 7 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 5 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
7 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 4 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
9 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
10 Dina, Soul Steeper 2 decks

Card text

Sephiroth's Intervention

Instant

Destroy target creature. You gain 2 life.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Joshua Raphael

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.