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Birthing Pod
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Artifact
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New Phyrexia (NPH)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
139
Decks Running
62
In Decks
672
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
37 instances5.4%
Library
18.9%
Battlefield
18.9%
Graveyard
18.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
15 decks
-
2
Ashling, the Limitless
4 decks
-
3
The Serpent Society
3 decks
-
4
Betor, Ancestor's Voice
2 decks
-
5
Karador, Ghost Chieftain
2 decks
-
6
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
2 decks
-
7
Myrkul, Lord of Bones
2 decks
-
8
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
2 decks
-
9
Toph, the First Metalbender
2 decks
-
10
Tymna the Weaver
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
139 brought · 57 playersBrought to game
139
Ever drawn
33
Reached battlefield
19
Still on board at game end
7
≥ -24.9pp
Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=19) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=93).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap -4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -24.9pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
19 of 100 times cast
19%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.