Live Play Data

Defiler of Faith

· Creature — Phyrexian Human · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

300

Decks Running

145

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 29% (4 / 35 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

300 brought · 140 players

Brought to game

300

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -14.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=183).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=24).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

25.7%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 14 decks
2 Darien, King of Kjeldor 13 decks
3 Myrel, Shield of Argive 10 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 6 decks
6 Brigone, Soldier of Meletis 5 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 5 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
9 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 4 decks
10 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 4 decks

Card text

Defiler of Faith

Creature — Phyrexian Human

Vigilance As an additional cost to cast white permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {W}

less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of white mana you pay. Whenever you cast a white permanent spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

5 / 5

Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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.