Live Play Data

Sephiroth's Intervention

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

73%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 5% (1 / 22 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

140 brought · 68 players

Brought to game

140

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -19.7pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=21) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=90).

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 -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -19.7pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

71.8%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

23.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 9 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
3 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 5 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 4 decks
6 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 3 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 3 decks
9 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
10 Rufus Shinra 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.