Live Play Data

Summon: Esper Valigarmanda

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

208

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=61

11%

57%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 13% (3 / 61 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

447 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

447

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=57) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=43).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

2.3%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

39.7%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 102 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 38 decks
3 Tom Bombadil 12 decks
4 Celes, Rune Knight 5 decks
5 Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe 4 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 3 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 3 decks
9 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
10 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 2 decks

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

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.