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Summon: Esper Valigarmanda

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

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Times Brought

255

Decks Running

142

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

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

65 instances

18.5%

Battlefield

47.7%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

27.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 77 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 25 decks
3 Celes, Rune Knight 4 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 4 decks
5 Tom Bombadil 4 decks
6 Chong and Lily, Nomads 2 decks
7 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 2 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
9 Lorehold, the Historian 2 decks
10 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

255 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

255

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=23) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=134).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

22%

26%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 22% (6 / 27 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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.