Live Play Data

Infectious Bite

· Instant · Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

670

Decks Running

307

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

14%

12%

17%

37%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 2% (2 / 81 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

670 brought · 285 players

Brought to game

670

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=77) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=483).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=31).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

129 instances

3.9%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

58.1%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Infectious Bite

Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Campbell White

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.