Live Play Data
Birthing Pod
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Artifact
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New Phyrexia (NPH)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
364
Decks Running
173
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
First-cast turn
n=60
0%
T1
5%
T2
15%
T3
10%
T4
18%
T5
43%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
30%
(6 / 60 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
33%
The "good card" funnel
364 brought · 157 playersBrought to game
364
Ever drawn
92
Reached battlefield
60
Still on board at game end
37
Once cast, 62% 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.
≥ -6.2pp
Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=58) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=234).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=31).
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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
102 instances5.9%
Library
36.3%
Battlefield
18.6%
Graveyard
10.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
32 decks
-
2
Ashling, the Limitless
12 decks
-
3
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
12 decks
-
4
Uugguu, the Omniplasm
10 decks
-
5
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
9 decks
-
6
The Serpent Society
5 decks
-
7
The Reaper, King No More
3 decks
-
8
Animar, Soul of Elements
2 decks
-
9
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
2 decks
-
10
Betor, Ancestor's Voice
2 decks
Card text
Birthing Pod
Artifact
( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
, 
, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
can be paid with either or 2 life.)
, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
New Phyrexia (NPH)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Daarken
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.