Live Play Data

Phoenix Down

· Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

217

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

28%

24%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 4% (1 / 25 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=23) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=129).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=17).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +33.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

1.7%

Library

20.7%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

17.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 64 decks
2 Celes, Rune Knight 5 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 3 decks
4 Aerith Gainsborough 2 decks
5 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 2 decks
6 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 2 decks
8 Malcator, Purity Overseer 2 decks
9 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 2 decks
10 Rufus Shinra 2 decks

Card text

Phoenix Down

Artifact

, Exile this artifact: Choose one — • Return target creature card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. • Exile target Skeleton, Spirit, or Zombie.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Severin Brassell

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.