Live Play Data

Ghostly Flicker

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2184

Decks Running

988

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=306

63%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 2% (4 / 306 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

2185 brought · 859 players

Brought to game

2185

Ever drawn

591

Reached battlefield

306

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=274) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1325).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=260).

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 +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

670 instances

2.2%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

51.5%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 72 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 42 decks
3 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 36 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 36 decks
5 Brago, King Eternal 34 decks
6 Niko, Light of Hope 31 decks
7 Orvar, the All-Form 31 decks
8 Yarok, the Desecrated 27 decks
9 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 25 decks
10 Reaper King 25 decks

Card text

Ghostly Flicker

Instant

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Common · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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.