Live Play Data

Phyrexian Altar

· Artifact · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1401

Decks Running

750

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180

10%

15%

17%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 17% (18 / 180 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

1402 brought · 606 players

Brought to game

1402

Ever drawn

301

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

140

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=154) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=888).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=107).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

351 instances

3.1%

Library

39.9%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 31 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 31 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 31 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 27 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 23 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 23 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 22 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks
9 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 14 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 14 decks

Card text

Phyrexian Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.