Live Play Data

Phyrexian Altar

· Artifact · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2870

Decks Running

1406

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=395

10%

14%

16%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 18% (41 / 395 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

2871 brought · 1084 players

Brought to game

2871

Ever drawn

637

Reached battlefield

395

Still on board at game end

302

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=362) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1835).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=216).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

739 instances

3.5%

Library

40.9%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 79 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 67 decks
3 Edgar Markov 63 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 56 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 35 decks
6 Teval, the Balanced Scale 32 decks
7 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 31 decks
8 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 28 decks
9 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
10 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 22 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.