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Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Phoenix · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

177

Decks Running

In Decks

529

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard

When Joshua enters, discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. {3}

: Exile Joshua, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Phoenix, Warden of Fire

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Phoenix

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I, II — Rising Flames — Phoenix deals 2 damage to each opponent. III — Flames of Rebirth — Return any number of target creature cards with total mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Phoenix, then return it to the battlefield (front face up). Flying, lifelink

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Lius Lasahido

Final zone distribution

74 instances

4.1%

Library

41.9%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 15 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 12 decks
3 Quintorius, History Chaser 10 decks
4 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 8 decks
5 Tom Bombadil 4 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 3 decks
7 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
9 Mog, Moogle Warrior 2 decks
10 Shabraz, the Skyshark 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

177 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

177

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -12.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=37) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=92).

Observed gap +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.7pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

10%

22%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 17% (5 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

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.