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Portal to Phyrexia

· Artifact · The Brothers' War (BRO)

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Times Brought

980

Decks Running

462

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

226 instances

4.9%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

16.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 52 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 31 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 29 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 21 decks
5 Molecule Man 17 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 17 decks
7 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 11 decks
8 Omnath, Locus of the Void 11 decks
9 The Infamous Cruelclaw 10 decks
10 Kona, Rescue Beastie 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

980 brought · 391 players

Brought to game

980

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

107

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.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=87) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=566).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=74).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=107

12%

11%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 87% (3 / 107 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.