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Ghostly Flicker

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

526

Decks Running

273

In Decks

2120

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

162 instances

1.9%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 18 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 12 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 11 decks
4 Brago, King Eternal 11 decks
5 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 11 decks
6 Niko, Light of Hope 11 decks
7 Yarok, the Desecrated 11 decks
8 Orvar, the All-Form 10 decks
9 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 9 decks
10 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

527 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

527

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=66) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=326).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=67) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

59%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 5% (3 / 74 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

74 of 100 times cast 74%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.