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Primal Might

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

370

Decks Running

202

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

Primal Might

Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

80 instances

3.8%

Library

7.5%

Battlefield

45.0%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 87 decks
2 Atarka, World Render 34 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 9 decks
4 Wolverine, Best There Is 7 decks
5 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 4 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 3 decks
7 Halana and Alena, Partners 3 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 3 decks
9 Legolas, Master Archer 3 decks
10 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

371 brought · 193 players

Brought to game

371

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=32) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=25).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

17%

49%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.