Live Play Data

Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury

· Legendary Creature — Elder Giant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

23%

18%

17%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 27% (18 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 20% 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.

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=53) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=103).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=18).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

13.9%

Battlefield

48.1%

Graveyard

20.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 15 decks
2 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 5 decks
3 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 5 decks
4 Lorehold, the Historian 4 decks
5 Neriv, Heart of the Storm 4 decks
6 Celes, Rune Knight 3 decks
7 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks
8 Lightning, Army of One 2 decks
9 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 2 decks
10 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks

Card text

Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury

Legendary Creature — Elder Giant

When Phlage enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Phlage enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. Escape— {R}

, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lucas Graciano

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.