Live Play Data

Kessig Flamebreather

· Creature — Human Shaman · Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

130

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

24%

14%

31%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 28% (7 / 29 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

193

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=27) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=139).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.3pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

43.6%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 30 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 15 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 8 decks
4 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 6 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
6 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 5 decks
7 Abaddon the Despoiler 3 decks
8 Electro, Assaulting Battery 3 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 3 decks
10 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 3 decks

Card text

Kessig Flamebreather

Creature — Human Shaman

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW) · Common · 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.