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Flare of Fortitude

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

1077

Decks Running

544

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

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

Final zone distribution

215 instances

1.4%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

41.9%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 50 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 15 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 14 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 13 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 12 decks
6 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 11 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 9 decks
8 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 8 decks
9 Kwia Vigorbloom 8 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

1079 brought · 478 players

Brought to game

1079

Ever drawn

197

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=78) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=631).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=73).

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 -3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +2.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=95

14%

57%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 9% (5 / 95 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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.