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Metastatic Evangel

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

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Times Brought

486

Decks Running

238

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.)

3 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

90 instances

1.1%

Library

42.2%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 42 decks
2 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 17 decks
3 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 13 decks
4 Kratos, Stoic Father 13 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 10 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 8 decks
7 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 7 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 6 decks
9 Kilo, Apogee Mind 6 decks
10 Vishgraz, the Doomhive 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

486 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

486

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=52) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=312).

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 -6.1pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

22%

18%

14%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 30% (16 / 74 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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.