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Rite of Flame

· Sorcery · Coldsnap (CSP)

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Times Brought

911

Decks Running

439

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

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

150 instances

3.3%

Library

4.7%

Battlefield

59.3%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 42 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 26 decks
3 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 24 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 20 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 20 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 17 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 15 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 13 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 11 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

914 brought · 368 players

Brought to game

914

Ever drawn

136

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=68) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=44).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=82

18%

11%

15%

11%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 18% (15 / 82 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

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.