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Phyrexian Tower

Legendary Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

908

Decks Running

505

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.

Final zone distribution

224 instances

2.2%

Library

73.2%

Battlefield

10.3%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 34 decks
2 Edgar Markov 26 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 19 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 16 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 12 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 9 decks
8 The Great Goblin 9 decks
9 The Serpent Society 9 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

908 brought · 411 players

Brought to game

908

Ever drawn

203

Reached battlefield

173

Still on board at game end

164

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=146) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=516).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=16) — 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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=173

17%

16%

15%

14%

20%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

1162 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.