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Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

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

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Times Brought

180

Decks Running

112

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.

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.

2 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

37 instances

2.7%

Library

45.9%

Battlefield

24.3%

Graveyard

18.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 17 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 10 decks
3 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks
4 Fire Lord Zuko 4 decks
5 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 4 decks
7 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 4 decks
8 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 3 decks
9 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 3 decks
10 Ketramose, the New Dawn 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

182 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

182

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=20) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=111).

Observed gap +16.7pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

24%

28%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 24% (4 / 25 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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.