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Squall, SeeD Mercenary

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

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Times Brought

198

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

35 instances

2.9%

Library

42.9%

Battlefield

25.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 20 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 16 decks
3 Noctis, Heir Apparent 11 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 10 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
6 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 6 decks
7 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 5 decks
8 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 3 decks
9 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

198 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

198

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=18) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

24%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 59% (11 / 46 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.