Live Play Data

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

· Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra · Reality Fracture (FRA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

833

Decks Running

400

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=145

12%

16%

19%

38%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 30% (23 / 145 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

833 brought · 361 players

Brought to game

833

Ever drawn

216

Reached battlefield

145

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=136) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=514).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

237 instances

3.4%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

32.1%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 43 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 29 decks
3 Jace, Multiverse Architect 14 decks
4 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 12 decks
5 Prosper, Tome-Bound 11 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 10 decks
7 Norin the Wary 10 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 9 decks
9 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 9 decks
10 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 8 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.