Live Play Data

Phyrexian Arena

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3781

Decks Running

1916

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=508

21%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (106 / 508 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

3786 brought · 1338 players

Brought to game

3786

Ever drawn

864

Reached battlefield

508

Still on board at game end

408

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.

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=465) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2454).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=328).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

971 instances

2.4%

Library

42.0%

Battlefield

23.6%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 64 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 61 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 49 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 40 decks
5 Edgar Markov 33 decks
6 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 33 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 32 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 32 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 28 decks
10 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 23 decks

Card text

Phyrexian Arena

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.