Live Play Data

Infernal Idol

· Artifact · Foundations Commander (FDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

323

Decks Running

162

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

34%

26%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 42% (18 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

323 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

323

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=45) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=203).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21).

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 -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.0pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

2.5%

Library

45.0%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

22.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 134 decks
2 Ayara, First of Locthwain 5 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 4 decks
4 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 2 decks
5 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 1 decks
6 Fumulus, the Infestation 1 decks
7 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector 1 decks
8 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 1 decks
9 Lazav, Familiar Stranger 1 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 1 decks

Card text

Infernal Idol

Artifact

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Foundations Commander (FDC) · Common · Illustrated by Drew Tucker

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.