Live Play Data

Birthing Ritual

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

397

Decks Running

179

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=68

19%

15%

12%

31%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 22% (13 / 68 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

The "good card" funnel

397 brought · 170 players

Brought to game

397

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=66) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=262).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

6.2%

Library

42.5%

Battlefield

21.2%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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.