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Flame Rift

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

120

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Flame Rift

Sorcery

Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Final zone distribution

44 instances

4.5%

Library

9.1%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 29 decks
2 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 14 decks
3 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 13 decks
4 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 8 decks
5 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 7 decks
6 Neheb, the Eternal 7 decks
7 Abaddon the Despoiler 5 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 5 decks
10 Firesong and Sunspeaker 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=23) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=163).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

79%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 6 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 4% (0 / 28 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.