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Rionya, Fire Dancer

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

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Times Brought

229

Decks Running

123

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

47 instances

34.0%

Battlefield

23.4%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

31.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 42 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 22 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 14 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 5 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
6 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 4 decks
7 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 4 decks
8 Rionya, Fire Dancer 3 decks
9 Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds 2 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

230 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

230

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=18) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=16) — 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 -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

14%

38%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 38% (3 / 21 cast on T5)

21 of 100 times cast 21%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.