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Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

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

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Times Brought

148

Decks Running

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

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.

7 / 6

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

Final zone distribution

36 instances

2.8%

Library

50.0%

Battlefield

13.9%

Graveyard

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 15 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
3 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 9 decks
4 Sonic the Hedgehog 8 decks
5 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 4 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 4 decks
7 Ruby, Daring Tracker 3 decks
8 Atreus, Impulsive Son 2 decks
9 Karlach, Fury of Avernus 2 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet Reborn 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

149 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

149

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=19) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=90).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

19%

48%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 33% (4 / 21 cast on T5)

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.