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Phyrexian Vindicator
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
174
Decks Running
97
In Decks
572
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
55 instances1.8%
Library
45.5%
Battlefield
16.4%
Graveyard
9.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
25 decks
-
2
The Sentry, Golden Guardian
12 decks
-
3
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
7 decks
-
4
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
4 decks
-
5
Firesong and Sunspeaker
4 decks
-
6
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
3 decks
-
7
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
2 decks
-
8
Jared Carthalion, True Heir
2 decks
-
9
Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
2 decks
-
10
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
174 brought · 93 playersBrought to game
174
Ever drawn
54
Reached battlefield
37
Still on board at game end
25
Once cast, 68% 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.
≥ -6.5pp
Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=34) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=99).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15) — 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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=37
0%
T1
3%
T2
0%
T3
11%
T4
8%
T5
57%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median
7
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
13
On curve
14%
(4 / 37 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
29%
37 of 100 times cast
37%
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.