Live Play Data

Portal to Phyrexia

· Artifact · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1151

Decks Running

489

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=194

14%

64%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 87% (15 / 194 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1151 brought · 416 players

Brought to game

1151

Ever drawn

284

Reached battlefield

194

Still on board at game end

139

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +14.2pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=185) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=737).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=83).

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 +21.2pp; 95% confidence interval +14.2pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

314 instances

2.5%

Library

44.3%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 38 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 38 decks
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 23 decks
4 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 23 decks
5 Molecule Man 22 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 15 decks
7 Kona, Rescue Beastie 11 decks
8 The Notary Hobbits 11 decks
9 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 10 decks
10 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 10 decks

Card text

Portal to Phyrexia

Artifact

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

The Brothers' War (BRO) · Mythic · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.