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Past in Flames

· Sorcery · Modern Masters 2017 (MM3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

370

Decks Running

218

In Decks

1539

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Past in Flames

Sorcery

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}

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

Modern Masters 2017 (MM3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

Final zone distribution

100 instances

1.0%

Library

10.0%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

15.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 32 decks
2 Abaddon the Despoiler 21 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 15 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 9 decks
5 Magnus the Red 8 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 7 decks
7 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 6 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
9 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 5 decks
10 Krenko, Mob Boss 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

374 brought · 205 players

Brought to game

374

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=42) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=237).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=37) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +21.9pp; 95% confidence interval +7.4pp to +36.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

43%

T6-9

39%

T10+

Median 8.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 7% (3 / 44 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

44 of 100 times cast 44%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.