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Portal to Phyrexia

· Artifact · The Brothers' War (BRO)

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Times Brought

396

Decks Running

198

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.

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

Final zone distribution

91 instances

6.6%

Library

34.1%

Battlefield

14.3%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 24 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 18 decks
3 Molecule Man 12 decks
4 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 12 decks
5 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 9 decks
6 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 9 decks
7 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 5 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 5 decks
9 The Notary Hobbits 5 decks
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

396 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

396

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=37) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=33) — 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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 85% (1 / 41 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.