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Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth

· Land — Town // Sorcery — Adventure · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

161

Decks Running

In Decks

504

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis

Land — Town

This land enters tapped. {T}

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Lasting Fayth

Sorcery — Adventure

Create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each land you control. (Then exile this card. You may play the land later from exile.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Erikas Perl

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

46.7%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wandering Minstrel 19 decks
2 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 8 decks
3 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 5 decks
4 Sin, Spira's Punishment 4 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 4 decks
6 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 3 decks
7 Omega, Heartless Evolution 3 decks
8 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 3 decks
9 Tifa Lockhart 3 decks
10 Baylen, the Haymaker 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

161 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

161

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -14.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=28) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=101).

Observed gap +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -14.4pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

14%

10%

17%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.