Live Play Data

Purphoros, God of the Forge

· Legendary Enchantment Creature — God · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2538

Decks Running

1010

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=409

11%

16%

17%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (67 / 409 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

2542 brought · 832 players

Brought to game

2542

Ever drawn

589

Reached battlefield

386

Still on board at game end

313

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=357) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1684).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=182).

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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

638 instances

4.4%

Library

49.1%

Battlefield

13.9%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 150 decks
2 Norin the Wary 50 decks
3 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 47 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 39 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 36 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 27 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 26 decks
8 Kratos, Stoic Father 22 decks
9 Ingris Stingerquill 19 decks
10 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 19 decks

Card text

Purphoros, God of the Forge

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

6 / 5

Commander Masters (CMM) · 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.