Live Play Data

Vivi's Persistence

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

467

Decks Running

230

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=116

13%

10%

17%

16%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 18% (15 / 116 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

467 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

467

Ever drawn

139

Reached battlefield

116

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=108) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=288).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=21).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

143 instances

2.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

70.6%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 71 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 29 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 27 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 19 decks
5 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 14 decks
6 Norin the Wary 7 decks
7 Black Waltz No. 3 4 decks
8 Longshot, Rebel Bowman 4 decks
9 Zuko, Firebending Master 4 decks
10 Abaddon the Despoiler 3 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.