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Purphoros, God of the Forge

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

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Times Brought

1350

Decks Running

635

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

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, 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

Final zone distribution

290 instances

1.0%

Library

58.3%

Battlefield

10.3%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 120 decks
2 Baylen, the Haymaker 26 decks
3 Norin the Wary 26 decks
4 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 26 decks
5 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 22 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 18 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 18 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 16 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 14 decks
10 Ingris Stingerquill 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1356 brought · 536 players

Brought to game

1356

Ever drawn

274

Reached battlefield

189

Still on board at game end

169

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=152) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=795).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=68).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=208

14%

17%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 45

On curve 36% (30 / 208 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.