Live Play Data

Crucible of Fire

· Enchantment · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

825

Decks Running

387

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=113

12%

15%

51%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 20% (14 / 113 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

825 brought · 358 players

Brought to game

825

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

113

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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=103) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=546).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=45).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

178 instances

3.9%

Library

47.2%

Battlefield

19.7%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

Iconic Masters (IMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Dominick Domingo

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.