Live Play Data

Phyrexian Arena

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

13%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7711

Decks Running

3586

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1019

21%

13%

34%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 31% (217 / 1019 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

7716 brought · 2385 players

Brought to game

7716

Ever drawn

1753

Reached battlefield

1019

Still on board at game end

815

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=926) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=5001).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=663).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1974 instances

2.4%

Library

41.3%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 170 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 104 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 91 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 71 decks
5 Edgar Markov 66 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 57 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 56 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 50 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 49 decks
10 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 43 decks

Card text

Phyrexian Arena

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.