Live Play Data

Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

· Legendary Enchantment Creature — God · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

314

Decks Running

144

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

19%

49%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 36% (10 / 53 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

314 brought · 142 players

Brought to game

314

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=37) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=34).

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 +18.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

7.1%

Library

38.1%

Battlefield

13.1%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 27 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 15 decks
3 Sonic the Hedgehog 8 decks
4 Atreus, Impulsive Son 7 decks
5 Ruby, Daring Tracker 6 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 5 decks
7 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 5 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 4 decks
9 Child of Alara 3 decks
10 Ares, God of War 2 decks

Card text

Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Other creatures you control have haste. {2}

: You may put a red creature card or an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

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Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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.