Live Play Data

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

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

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Times Brought

318

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

12%

20%

12%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 34% (17 / 83 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

318 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

318

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=51) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=207).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

3.3%

Library

35.6%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 40 decks
2 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 20 decks
3 Quintorius, History Chaser 12 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 10 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 6 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
8 Mog, Moogle Warrior 3 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.