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Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Warrior // Legendary Creature — Dragon · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

128

Decks Running

In Decks

432

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Zenos yae Galvus

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Warrior

My First Friend — When Zenos yae Galvus enters, choose a creature an opponent controls. Until end of turn, creatures other than Zenos yae Galvus and the chosen creature get -2/-2. When the chosen creature leaves the battlefield, transform Zenos yae Galvus.

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Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying As this creature transforms into Shinryu, choose an opponent. Burning Chains — When the chosen player loses the game, you win the game.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

Final zone distribution

52 instances

48.1%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

11.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 12 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 3 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
6 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 3 decks
7 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 3 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

128 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

128

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=21) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=77).

Observed gap +23.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +44.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

22%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 26% (5 / 23 cast on T5)

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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.