Live Play Data

Banefire

· Sorcery · Core Set 2019 (M19)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

213

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

16%

14%

51%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

213

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=33) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=134).

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 +24.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +43.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

3.5%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

54.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rosheen, Roaring Prophet 5 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
3 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 4 decks
4 Neheb, the Eternal 4 decks
5 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss 4 decks
6 Magus Lucea Kane 3 decks
7 Mizzix of the Izmagnus 3 decks
8 Rowan, Scion of War 3 decks
9 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 3 decks
10 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 3 decks

Card text

Banefire

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Core Set 2019 (M19) · Rare · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.