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Birthing Ritual

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

163

Decks Running

In Decks

478

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Birthing Ritual

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Drew Tucker

Final zone distribution

45 instances

8.9%

Library

44.4%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

163 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

163

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=26) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=108).

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +30.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

15%

11%

37%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 15% (3 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.