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Forbidden Alchemy

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

156

Decks Running

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

Forbidden Alchemy

Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by David Rapoza

Final zone distribution

47 instances

68.1%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

17.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

156 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

156

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

First-cast turn

n=20

20%

10%

20%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 25% (1 / 20 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.