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Squall, SeeD Mercenary

· Legendary Creature — Human Knight Mercenary · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

In Decks

567

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Squall, SeeD Mercenary

Legendary Creature — Human Knight Mercenary

Rough Divide — Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. Whenever Squall deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Yuu Fujiki

Final zone distribution

69 instances

49.3%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

17.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 19 decks
2 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 17 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 13 decks
4 Noctis, Heir Apparent 7 decks
5 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 6 decks
6 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 3 decks
7 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 3 decks
8 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 2 decks
9 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -19.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=25) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=118).

Observed gap -3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -19.6pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

21%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 29% (3 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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.