Live Play Data

Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

13%

23%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 48% (14 / 60 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=24) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=113).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=15).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +30.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

25.5%

Battlefield

36.2%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

27.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 14 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
3 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 5 decks
4 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 5 decks
5 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 4 decks
6 Deadpool, Trading Card 3 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks
10 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 2 decks

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.