Live Play Data

Birthing Pod

· Artifact · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

736

Decks Running

339

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100

11%

14%

16%

46%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 27% (14 / 100 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

736 brought · 304 players

Brought to game

736

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=96) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=465).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=65).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

198 instances

4.5%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Birthing Pod

Artifact

(

can be paid with either {G}

or 2 life.) {1}

, 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) · Rare · 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.