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Sarkhan, Soul Aflame

{1} {U} {R} · Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
Times Brought
627
Decks Running
280
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Sarkhan, Soul Aflame card

Sarkhan, Soul Aflame

{1} {U} {R}
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

Final zone distribution

138 instances
2.9%
Library
48.6%
Battlefield
25.4%
Graveyard
3.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

627 brought · 254 players
Brought to game
627
Ever drawn
130
Reached battlefield
104
Still on board at game end
67

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=84) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=342).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=20).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=121
3%
T1
17%
T2
21%
T3
16%
T4
12%
T5
31%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 9
On curve 41% (25 / 121 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.