Live Play Data

Nibelheim Aflame

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

681

Decks Running

271

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

11%

10%

56%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 14% (8 / 72 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

681 brought · 246 players

Brought to game

681

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=65) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=436).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=70).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

173 instances

4.0%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

54.9%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 38 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 23 decks
3 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 14 decks
4 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 7 decks
5 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 7 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 7 decks
7 Wolverine, Best There Is 7 decks
8 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 4 decks
9 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 4 decks
10 Lightning, Army of One 4 decks

Card text

Nibelheim Aflame

Sorcery

Choose target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, discard your hand and draw four cards. Flashback {5}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Arou

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.