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Phoenix Down

· Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

182

Decks Running

108

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

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

Final zone distribution

48 instances

18.8%

Battlefield

47.9%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

20.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 72 decks
2 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
3 Amy Rose 2 decks
4 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 2 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 2 decks
6 Yuna, Grand Summoner 2 decks
7 Aerith, Last Ancient 1 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 decks
9 Auron, Venerated Guardian 1 decks
10 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

182 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

182

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=16) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.5pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.