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Balefire Liege

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

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Times Brought

131

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

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Library

47.5%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=21) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=68).

Observed gap +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

56%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 33% (5 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.