Live Play Data

Rite of Flame

· Sorcery · Coldsnap (CSP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2081

Decks Running

914

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=329

10%

12%

16%

19%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 9% (29 / 329 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

2084 brought · 688 players

Brought to game

2084

Ever drawn

496

Reached battlefield

329

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=288) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1253).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=147).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

567 instances

4.1%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

14.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 73 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 53 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 38 decks
4 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 36 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 35 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 29 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 26 decks
8 Prismari, the Inspiration 24 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 22 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 20 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.