Live Play Data

Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

· Legendary Creature — Dog · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

463

Decks Running

231

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

25%

17%

16%

13%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 25% (27 / 108 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

464 brought · 212 players

Brought to game

464

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=69) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=307).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 45% (n=23).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

116 instances

3.4%

Library

32.8%

Battlefield

37.1%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Legendary Creature — Dog

Flash Whenever Phelia attacks, exile up to one other target nonland permanent. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it entered under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Phelia.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Rudy Siswanto

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.