Live Play Data

Past in Flames

· Sorcery · Modern Masters 2017 (MM3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

999

Decks Running

478

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

12%

54%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 12% (10 / 121 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1003 brought · 438 players

Brought to game

1003

Ever drawn

245

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

≥ +10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=109) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=618).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=109).

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 +19.2pp; 95% confidence interval +10.1pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

284 instances

3.2%

Library

10.2%

Battlefield

38.0%

Graveyard

16.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 60 decks
2 Abaddon the Despoiler 47 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 34 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 33 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 15 decks
6 Magnus the Red 15 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 13 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
9 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 11 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 8 decks

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

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.