Live Play Data

Rite of Flame

· Sorcery · Coldsnap (CSP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1122

Decks Running

568

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=186

12%

11%

23%

13%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 12% (22 / 186 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

1125 brought · 440 players

Brought to game

1125

Ever drawn

274

Reached battlefield

186

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=160) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=669).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=81).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

306 instances

5.2%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

55.6%

Graveyard

14.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 43 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 41 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 26 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 21 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 20 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 18 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 17 decks
8 Prismari, the Inspiration 16 decks
9 Krark, the Thumbless 14 decks
10 Flubs, the Fool 12 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.