Live Play Data

Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

345

Decks Running

165

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=76

14%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

345 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

345

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=67) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

108 instances

2.8%

Library

56.5%

Battlefield

19.4%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wandering Minstrel 36 decks
2 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 10 decks
3 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 9 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 8 decks
5 Sin, Spira's Punishment 6 decks
6 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 5 decks
7 Tifa Lockhart 5 decks
8 Kwia Vigorbloom 4 decks
9 Gorion, Wise Mentor 3 decks
10 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 3 decks

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

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.