Live Play Data

Flare of Cultivation

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

436

Decks Running

206

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

12%

14%

12%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 22% (4 / 51 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

436 brought · 199 players

Brought to game

436

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.5pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=44) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=282).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=39).

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 -6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -18.5pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances

3.5%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

61.4%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Flare of Cultivation

Sorcery

You may sacrifice a nontoken green creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Billy Christian

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.