Live Play Data

Nibelheim Aflame

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

326

Decks Running

155

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

16%

57%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 8% (2 / 37 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

326 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

326

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=33) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=214).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +27.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

2.5%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 27 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 18 decks
3 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 6 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 5 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
6 Wolverine, Best There Is 5 decks
7 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 4 decks
8 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 4 decks
9 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 3 decks
10 Saruman, the White Hand 3 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.