Live Play Data

Phyrexian Tower

Legendary Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6663

Decks Running

2931

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1239

13%

15%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

6667 brought · 1976 players

Brought to game

6667

Ever drawn

1593

Reached battlefield

1239

Still on board at game end

1130

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=1137) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4202).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=306).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1832 instances

2.9%

Library

61.7%

Battlefield

16.1%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 143 decks
2 Edgar Markov 98 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 60 decks
4 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 56 decks
5 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 56 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 53 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 47 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 47 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 46 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 46 decks

Card text

Phyrexian Tower

Legendary Land

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, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Martin de Diego Sádaba

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.