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· Creature — Illusion · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

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Times Brought

225

Decks Running

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

56 instances

1.8%

Library

33.9%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

The "good card" funnel

225 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

225

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=27) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=123).

Observed gap -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

13%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 10% (3 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.