Live Play Data

Detective's Phoenix

· Enchantment Creature — Phoenix · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

103

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

29%

14%

33%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 14% (2 / 21 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

103 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

103

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -14.1pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=19) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=63).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -14.1pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

31 instances

6.5%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

25.8%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Malfegor 7 decks
2 Lightning, Army of One 6 decks
3 Quintorius, History Chaser 6 decks
4 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
5 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 3 decks
6 Spider-Man 2099 3 decks
7 Syrix, Carrier of the Flame 3 decks
8 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
9 Goro-Goro and Satoru 2 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks

Card text

Detective's Phoenix

Enchantment Creature — Phoenix

Bestow—

, Collect evidence 6. (To pay this bestow cost, pay {R}

and exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.) Flying, haste Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste. You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander

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.