Live Play Data

Metastatic Evangel

· Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

587

Decks Running

283

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=119

18%

15%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 22% (21 / 119 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

587 brought · 265 players

Brought to game

587

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

119

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=114) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=389).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=23).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

153 instances

4.6%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 46 decks
2 Kratos, Stoic Father 22 decks
3 Yuna, Grand Summoner 17 decks
4 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 12 decks
5 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 11 decks
6 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 10 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 8 decks
8 Vishgraz, the Doomhive 8 decks
9 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 6 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 6 decks

Card text

Metastatic Evangel

Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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.