Live Play Data

Soul of New Phyrexia

· Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Avatar · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

306

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

18%

53%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 48% (7 / 40 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

306 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

306

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=37) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=28).

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 +19.2pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +34.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

78 instances

2.6%

Library

34.6%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 39 decks
2 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood 10 decks
3 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 8 decks
4 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 7 decks
5 Alena, Kessig Trapper 6 decks
6 Saheeli, the Gifted 5 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 4 decks
8 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 4 decks
9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 4 decks
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 4 decks

Card text

Soul of New Phyrexia

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Avatar

Trample

: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. {5}

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daarken

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.