Live Play Data

Flare of Fortitude

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1988

Decks Running

867

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=273

62%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 5% (11 / 273 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

1989 brought · 733 players

Brought to game

1989

Ever drawn

450

Reached battlefield

273

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=258) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=1322).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=159).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

505 instances

2.2%

Library

5.0%

Battlefield

54.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 82 decks
2 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 14 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 14 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 12 decks
5 Myrel, Shield of Argive 12 decks
6 Breena, the Demagogue 11 decks
7 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 11 decks
8 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 11 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 11 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 11 decks

Card text

Flare of Fortitude

Instant

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Winona Nelson

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.