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· Creature — Illusion · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

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Times Brought

572

Decks Running

271

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.

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Phantasmal Image

Creature — Illusion

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

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Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

Final zone distribution

158 instances

2.5%

Library

27.8%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 33 decks
2 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 13 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 11 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 10 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 9 decks
6 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 8 decks
7 Thrasios, Triton Hero 8 decks
8 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 7 decks
9 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 6 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

572 brought · 260 players

Brought to game

572

Ever drawn

142

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=75) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=299).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=39).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=88

13%

15%

18%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 9% (6 / 88 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.