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Part of Dominaria United
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Creature — Phyrexian Human
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Dominaria United (DMU)
Live Play Data
Defiler of Faith
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Creature — Phyrexian Human
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Dominaria United (DMU)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
203
Decks Running
104
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
58%
Format
First-cast turn
n=26
0%
T1
4%
T2
8%
T3
12%
T4
12%
T5
50%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
35%
(3 / 26 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
13%
The "good card" funnel
203 brought · 101 playersBrought to game
203
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
26
Still on board at game end
12
Once cast, 46% 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.
≥ -14.0pp
Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=25) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=125).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=17).
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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -14.0pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
55 instances1.8%
Library
21.8%
Battlefield
40.0%
Graveyard
12.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
10 decks
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2
Myrel, Shield of Argive
8 decks
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3
Brigone, Soldier of Meletis
5 decks
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4
Giada, Font of Hope
4 decks
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5
Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed
4 decks
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6
Whtz, the Bibliophile
4 decks
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7
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
3 decks
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8
Belladonna Took
3 decks
-
9
Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle
3 decks
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10
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 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 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.
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)
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Rare
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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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.