Live Play Data

Summon: Shiva

· Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

179

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

66%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 17% (0 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

179

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=28) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=109).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=20).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

15.8%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

12.3%

Exile

36.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 34 decks
2 Tom Bombadil 13 decks
3 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 7 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 7 decks
5 Hylda of the Icy Crown 3 decks
6 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
7 Omega, Heartless Evolution 2 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
9 Y'shtola Rhul 2 decks
10 Zur, Eternal Schemer 2 decks

Card text

Summon: Shiva

Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Heavenly Strike — Tap target creature an opponent controls. Put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) III — Diamond Dust — Draw a card for each tapped creature your opponents control.

4 / 5

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Fajareka Setiawan

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.