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Summon: Esper Valigarmanda

· Enchantment Creature — Saga Drake · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

207

Decks Running

100

In Decks

550

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Summon: Esper Valigarmanda

Enchantment Creature — Saga Drake

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I — Exile an instant or sorcery card from each graveyard. II, III, IV — Add {R}

for each lore counter on this Saga. You may cast an instant or sorcery card exiled with this Saga, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. Flying, haste

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Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fiona Hsieh

Final zone distribution

60 instances

1.7%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 41 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 20 decks
3 Tom Bombadil 6 decks
4 Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe 3 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 2 decks
7 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 2 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
9 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 1 decks
10 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -14.7pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=32) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=119).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=18) — 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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -14.7pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

56%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 12% (2 / 34 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

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.