Live Play Data

Drift of Phantasms

· Creature — Spirit · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

454

Decks Running

230

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=68

13%

10%

15%

41%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 16% (9 / 68 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

454 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

454

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 25% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=61) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=31).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

117 instances

3.4%

Library

14.5%

Battlefield

53.8%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arcades, the Strategist 49 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 32 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 15 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 9 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 7 decks
6 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 6 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 5 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
10 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 3 decks

Card text

Drift of Phantasms

Creature — Spirit

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Common · Illustrated by Michael Phillippi

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.