Live Play Data

Flare of Duplication

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1401

Decks Running

589

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

44%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=132

11%

13%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 8% (9 / 132 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1402 brought · 501 players

Brought to game

1402

Ever drawn

300

Reached battlefield

132

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=120) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=885).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=144).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

351 instances

4.8%

Library

4.6%

Battlefield

39.6%

Graveyard

12.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 43 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 32 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 25 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 25 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 20 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 18 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 13 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 13 decks
9 Thrasios, Triton Hero 12 decks
10 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 11 decks

Card text

Flare of Duplication

Instant

You may sacrifice a nontoken red creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

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.