Live Play Data

Vivi's Persistence

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

137

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

17%

14%

19%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 22% (11 / 64 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=60) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=156).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

76 instances

2.6%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

67.1%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 43 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 19 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 16 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 13 decks
5 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 8 decks
6 Black Waltz No. 3 3 decks
7 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 2 decks
10 Longshot, Rebel Bowman 2 decks

Card text

Vivi's Persistence

Instant

Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent." Whenever your commander enters or attacks, you may pay {2}

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Erion Makuo

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.