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Phyrexian Obliterator

· Creature — Phyrexian Horror · Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

307

Decks Running

173

In Decks

1029

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Phyrexian Obliterator

Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Trample Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

5 / 5

Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Maxim Kostin

Final zone distribution

70 instances

5.7%

Library

22.9%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

15.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 26 decks
2 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 11 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 11 decks
4 Baron Helmut Zemo 9 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 8 decks
6 Omnath, Locus of All 6 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 6 decks
8 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 5 decks
9 Athreos, God of Passage 4 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

309 brought · 172 players

Brought to game

309

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=20) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +18.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +35.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

14%

31%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 23% (5 / 35 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.