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Rionya, Fire Dancer

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

522

Decks Running

272

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

Rionya, Fire Dancer

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create X tokens that are copies of another target creature you control, where X is one plus the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn. They gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Heonhwa

Final zone distribution

97 instances

38.1%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

34.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 83 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 46 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 39 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 15 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 13 decks
6 Aerid Konstrari 9 decks
7 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 8 decks
8 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 5 decks
9 Veyran, Voice of Duality 4 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

523 brought · 250 players

Brought to game

523

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=42) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=27).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=64

11%

20%

38%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 50% (13 / 64 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.