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Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

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

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Times Brought

417

Decks Running

217

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

80 instances

2.5%

Library

46.3%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 32 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 18 decks
3 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 11 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
5 Ketramose, the New Dawn 7 decks
6 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 6 decks
7 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks
9 Sonic the Hedgehog 5 decks
10 Sophia, Dogged Detective 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

419 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

419

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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=43) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=241).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

19%

27%

13%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 46% (21 / 78 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.