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Phyrexian Altar

· Artifact · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

1947

Decks Running

985

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Phyrexian Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

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

Final zone distribution

417 instances

1.2%

Library

53.5%

Battlefield

13.4%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 68 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 56 decks
3 Edgar Markov 52 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 49 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 30 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 26 decks
7 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 24 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 22 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 21 decks

The "good card" funnel

1947 brought · 741 players

Brought to game

1947

Ever drawn

382

Reached battlefield

250

Still on board at game end

223

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=198) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=108).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=250

11%

13%

21%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 22% (28 / 250 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.