Live Play Data

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

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

454

Decks Running

162

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=112

11%

17%

13%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 29% (19 / 112 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

454 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

454

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=78) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=290).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=26).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances

3.7%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

37.0%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 46 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 24 decks
3 Quintorius, History Chaser 17 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 10 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 7 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 7 decks
7 Mog, Moogle Warrior 5 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
9 Lightning, Army of One 3 decks
10 Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe 3 decks

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.