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Anax, Hardened in the Forge

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

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Times Brought

128

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

26 instances

30.8%

Battlefield

38.5%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

23.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 15 decks
2 Gallia of the Endless Dance 10 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 7 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 3 decks
5 Purphoros, God of the Forge 3 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
7 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 decks
8 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks
9 Anax and Cymede 1 decks
10 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

128 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

128

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=18) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=71).

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 +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.