Live Play Data

Soul of New Phyrexia

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

524

Decks Running

261

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=73

18%

53%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 44% (14 / 73 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

524 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

524

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=66) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=331).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=49).

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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +24.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

140 instances

2.1%

Library

30.7%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 65 decks
2 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 15 decks
3 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 15 decks
4 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood 11 decks
5 Saheeli, the Gifted 10 decks
6 Alena, Kessig Trapper 9 decks
7 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 8 decks
8 Karn, Legacy Reforged 7 decks
9 Breya, Etherium Shaper 4 decks
10 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.