Live Play Data

Essence Flux

· Instant · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1416

Decks Running

668

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=219

11%

19%

57%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 0% (1 / 219 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1416 brought · 598 players

Brought to game

1416

Ever drawn

355

Reached battlefield

219

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=201) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=901).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=121).

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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

395 instances

4.6%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

54.9%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 80 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 37 decks
3 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 35 decks
4 Niko, Light of Hope 32 decks
5 Orvar, the All-Form 29 decks
6 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 27 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 25 decks
8 Brago, King Eternal 21 decks
9 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 12 decks
10 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 11 decks

Card text

Essence Flux

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it's a Spirit, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Common · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.