Live Play Data

Rite of Flame

· Sorcery · Coldsnap (CSP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1656

Decks Running

767

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=265

14%

11%

19%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 14% (36 / 265 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

The "good card" funnel

1659 brought · 579 players

Brought to game

1659

Ever drawn

400

Reached battlefield

265

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=229) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=992).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=122).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

455 instances

4.6%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

57.6%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 63 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 49 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 33 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 31 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 26 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 26 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 21 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 18 decks
9 Prismari, the Inspiration 18 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 18 decks

Card text

Rite of Flame

Sorcery

Add

, then add {R}

for each card named Rite of Flame in each graveyard.

Coldsnap (CSP) · Common · Illustrated by Dany Orizio

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.