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Rite of Flame

· Sorcery · Coldsnap (CSP)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

534

Decks Running

289

In Decks

2121

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

146 instances

4.8%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

59.6%

Graveyard

14.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 21 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 15 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 12 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
6 Krark, the Thumbless 10 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 10 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 8 decks
9 Tymna the Weaver 7 decks
10 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

537 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

537

Ever drawn

132

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=78) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=34) — 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 +14.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=95

25%

17%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 8% (8 / 95 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 55%

95 of 100 times cast 95%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.