Live Play Data

Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

980

Decks Running

429

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=240

21%

13%

14%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (50 / 240 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

981 brought · 382 players

Brought to game

981

Ever drawn

256

Reached battlefield

203

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ +6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=180) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=615).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=48).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.3pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

282 instances

3.5%

Library

31.6%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

10.6%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.