Live Play Data

Phyrexian Vindicator

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

424

Decks Running

210

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=70

11%

59%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 16% (8 / 70 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

424 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

424

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=63) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=31).

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 +16.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +28.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

115 instances

0.9%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 63 decks
2 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 21 decks
3 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 11 decks
4 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 10 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 7 decks
6 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 6 decks
7 Firesong and Sunspeaker 5 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks
10 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 3 decks

Card text

Phyrexian Vindicator

Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Flying If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. When damage is prevented this way, this creature deals that much damage to any other target.

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Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Denys Tsiperko

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.