Live Play Data

Purphoros, God of the Forge

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1534

Decks Running

682

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=271

11%

15%

16%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 30% (41 / 271 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1538 brought · 577 players

Brought to game

1538

Ever drawn

358

Reached battlefield

252

Still on board at game end

199

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=230) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1001).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=93).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

393 instances

5.1%

Library

50.6%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 109 decks
2 Norin the Wary 31 decks
3 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 26 decks
4 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 26 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 25 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 23 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 19 decks
8 Kratos, Stoic Father 17 decks
9 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 16 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 13 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.