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Part of Dominaria United
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror
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Dominaria United (DMU)
Live Play Data
Defiler of Flesh
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror
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Dominaria United (DMU)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
112
Decks Running
55
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
First-cast turn
n=21
0%
T1
10%
T2
10%
T3
10%
T4
14%
T5
38%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
29%
(2 / 21 cast on T4)
The "good card" funnel
112 brought · 52 playersBrought to game
112
Ever drawn
28
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
14
Once cast, 67% 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.
≥ -14.5pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=21) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=77).
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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +26.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
29 instances48.3%
Battlefield
17.2%
Graveyard
13.8%
Exile
20.7%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Rowan, Scion of War
5 decks
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2
Umbris, Fear Manifest
5 decks
-
3
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4 decks
-
4
Baron Helmut Zemo
3 decks
-
5
Captain N'ghathrod
3 decks
-
6
Acererak the Archlich
2 decks
-
7
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
2 decks
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8
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
2 decks
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9
Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
2 decks
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10
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
2 decks
Card text
Defiler of Flesh
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black 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 black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.4 / 4
Dominaria United (DMU)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Mathias Kollros
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.