Live Play Data

Balefire Liege

· Creature — Spirit Horror · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

114

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

54%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 25% (3 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

184 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

184

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=27) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=121).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=16).

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 +19.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +38.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

4.1%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Balefire Liege

Creature — Spirit Horror

Other red creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a red spell, this creature deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 3 life.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ralph Horsley

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.