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Purphoros, God of the Forge

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

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Times Brought

556

Decks Running

267

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, 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

133 instances

0.8%

Library

66.2%

Battlefield

9.0%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 48 decks
2 Kratos, Stoic Father 15 decks
3 Baylen, the Haymaker 13 decks
4 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 10 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 10 decks
6 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 10 decks
7 Norin the Wary 8 decks
8 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 6 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 5 decks
10 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

562 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

562

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=67) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=348).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=29) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

12%

22%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (10 / 86 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

86 of 100 times cast 86%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.