Live Play Data

Sarkhan, Soul Aflame

· Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

711

Decks Running

287

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=125

22%

20%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 30% (28 / 125 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

712 brought · 270 players

Brought to game

712

Ever drawn

169

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=111) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=41).

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 -2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

178 instances

4.5%

Library

32.0%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 104 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 92 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 38 decks
4 Tiamat 18 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 13 decks
6 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 4 decks
7 Zurgo and Ojutai 4 decks
8 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 3 decks
9 Ganax, Astral Hunter 3 decks
10 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks

Card text

Sarkhan, Soul Aflame

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Dragon spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may have Sarkhan become a copy of it until end of turn, except its name is Sarkhan, Soul Aflame and it's legendary in addition to its other types.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Wilkerson

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 seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.