Live Play Data

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

· Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

222

Decks Running

110

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

17%

21%

13%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 17% (4 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

222

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.

≥ -15.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=23) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=160).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -15.6pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

2.4%

Library

26.8%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 22 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 9 decks
3 Gallia of the Endless Dance 8 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 4 decks
5 Ares, God of War 3 decks
6 Gev, Scaled Scorch 3 decks
7 Purphoros, God of the Forge 3 decks
8 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 2 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
10 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 2 decks

Card text

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R}

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.