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Phyresis Outbreak

{2} {B} · Sorcery · Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC)
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Times Brought
181
Decks Running
85
In Decks
574
Decklist Inclusion
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Phyresis Outbreak card

Phyresis Outbreak

{2} {B}
Sorcery
Each opponent gets a poison counter. Then each creature your opponents control gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each poison counter its controller has.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander (ONC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matthew G. Lewis

Final zone distribution

49 instances
8.2%
Library
6.1%
Battlefield
55.1%
Graveyard
2.0%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

181 brought · 81 players
Brought to game
181
Ever drawn
46
Reached battlefield
30
Still on board at game end
3
≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=27) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=120).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=16) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.0pp to +38.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30
3%
T1
7%
T2
7%
T3
27%
T4
13%
T5
33%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 17% (2 / 30 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%
30 of 100 times cast 30%

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