Live Play Data

Metastatic Evangel

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

784

Decks Running

366

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=150

17%

15%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 21% (25 / 150 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

784 brought · 347 players

Brought to game

784

Ever drawn

183

Reached battlefield

150

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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=141) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=29).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

198 instances

4.0%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 60 decks
2 Kratos, Stoic Father 24 decks
3 Yuna, Grand Summoner 23 decks
4 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 16 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 15 decks
6 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 14 decks
7 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 9 decks
8 Vishgraz, the Doomhive 9 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 8 decks
10 Kros, Defense Contractor 8 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 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.