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Defiler of Instinct

· Creature — Phyrexian Kavu · Dominaria United (DMU)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

122

Decks Running

In Decks

362

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Defiler of Instinct

Creature — Phyrexian Kavu

First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R}

less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

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Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

Final zone distribution

25 instances

32.0%

Battlefield

24.0%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

32.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 15 decks
2 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 5 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 4 decks
4 Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence 3 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 3 decks
6 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 3 decks
7 Balin, Loremaster 2 decks
8 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest 2 decks
9 Norin the Wary 2 decks
10 Rowan, Scion of War 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

123 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

123

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

12 of 100 times cast 12%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.