Live Play Data

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

· Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra · Reality Fracture (FRA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

485

Decks Running

247

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=88

10%

20%

18%

36%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 34% (18 / 88 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

485 brought · 225 players

Brought to game

485

Ever drawn

128

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=84) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=295).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=33).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

4.1%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 29 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 10 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 8 decks
4 Norin the Wary 8 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 8 decks
6 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 8 decks
7 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 6 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 6 decks
9 Abaddon the Despoiler 5 decks
10 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 5 decks

Card text

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent. +1: Add {R}

. −3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature. −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Loyalty 4

Reality Fracture (FRA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.