Live Play Data

Cavalier of Flame

· Creature — Elemental Knight · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

110

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

13%

62%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 20% (6 / 45 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=41) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=172).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21).

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 +18.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +34.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

7.0%

Library

39.4%

Battlefield

29.6%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 37 decks
2 Ashling, the Limitless 20 decks
3 Calamity, Galloping Inferno 3 decks
4 Arthur, Marigold Knight 2 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
6 Hofri Ghostforge 2 decks
7 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 2 decks
8 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 2 decks
9 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 2 decks
10 Zell Dincht 2 decks

Card text

Cavalier of Flame

Creature — Elemental Knight

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn. When this creature enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards. When this creature dies, it deals X damage to each opponent and each planeswalker they control, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard.

6 / 5

Core Set 2020 (M20) · Mythic · Illustrated by Wesley Burt

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.