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Phyrexian Arena

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

3521

Decks Running

1767

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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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 Arena

Enchantment

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

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

Final zone distribution

753 instances

1.2%

Library

47.4%

Battlefield

15.4%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 97 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 66 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 56 decks
4 Edgar Markov 49 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 32 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 31 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 28 decks
8 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 27 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 27 decks
10 Marrow-Gnawer 24 decks

The "good card" funnel

3522 brought · 1344 players

Brought to game

3522

Ever drawn

686

Reached battlefield

420

Still on board at game end

357

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=333) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2021).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=197).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=420

13%

20%

16%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 36% (84 / 420 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.