Card Preview

Vivi's Persistence

· Instant · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

188

Decks Running

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

48 instances

6.3%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

72.9%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 25 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 19 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 4 decks
5 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 4 decks
6 Jace, Multiverse Architect 4 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks
9 Black Waltz No. 3 2 decks
10 Feather, the Redeemed 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=32) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 -5.7pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

10%

18%

10%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 28% (7 / 39 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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.